I will highlight a few points of interest. As I mentioned before, one of the images I used was of the side of a building. If you look closely, the border of the banner is actually composed of that image by using the content-aware fill and repeating certain parts of the image to create a sort of mesh pattern. The text and gun silhouette are texture masked with a 30% transparency of the gray carbon fiber image. I actually had to create my own letter "x" for the name because I didn't like the way the x looked in the font next to the other letters.

Critique

After all was said and done, I actually turned out quite pleased with my product. I've never taken any graphic design courses and all the skills I have with Photoshop and Illustrator are from learning on my own time. I wish there was a better street art image I could use for the background since no matter the composition, some part of the image was obscured (twitch.tv has strict guidelines on pixel sizes for graphics).

My friend was quite pleased with the outcome and did actually purchase it from me (and by purchase I mean barter, hopefully that still counts). You can see the heading graphics that I created for him if you scroll down a bit at twitch.tv/xdeavian and there is a compilation of all of them below. The banner shows up you click on his profile name or picture in the upper left.