One of my classmates said the exact same thing as spankmeyer.
and to him: Hartwall Arena Is like the best air conditioning you can find in finland. you can only smell sweat if you're wearing an old shirt/shoe/sock on your nose..
also, i think that like 5% of the people there are nerds, 20% programmers and 75% normal gamers... + the organizers
-no, paint doesn't save good quality jpg's (as said before)
-there's more than a "stupid" black background, ie. layers. which makes everything much easier in making the skin.
-the "stupid" black background is black just because it does NOT show in game, and when it doesn't show up in game: it's better to be black instead of having some "smart" colours taking up file size. so yea, black is to reduce file size.
-paint is made by micro$oft = it sucks
i think white "splatters" somewhere would be a nice touch..
Theres so much pink and black on it that it looks like if it's a white skin painted pink ingame, if you know what i mean.. the stuff that noobs do using the stock skins and making them ugly with the colour selector (I do NOT mean by this that you're skin is ugly. i just think it needs a bit more white)
EDIT: Argh! I'm so embarrased about how i "recovered" from the spin on the second start......
And the reason for the wierd ass recovery was that i was so pissed at the guy who kept pushing me that i though people was already pass me and decided to continue... untill i noticed that i'm not the only one in that area... =/