I never know what to use for a background or fonts.. Any ideas?

 

No doubt you are getting better but try making your backgrounds more elaborate. Heck, you could start off with a black background, apply a lighting effect, hit a filter or 2, make a gradient overlay, and BAM...you got yourself a nice background....and all without using brushes. But like I said, you are definitely getting better. Cropping is good and I kinda like the outer glow. As far as text, use www.dafont.com to download tons of fonts.

I like that alot, the background fits well. The only things I would change are the font on the left side, and make the statistics text stand out more. Just thinking out loud, but if you can, see what the picture looks like with a royal blue background with the same effect, and brighter white text for your wording.

Thank you very much for your advice and comments.