About the Layout
Let's see...I spent two days on this. Photoshop crashed on me twice, right when I was about to save. I saved over some necessary images multiple times and therefore, had to recreate them. I also remade parts of the layout multiple times because I wasn't happy with them the first time around. I made atleast 3 other variations to the layout before I arrived at this final stage. And this "final stage" has 3 sub-versions:
As gorgeous as Naoko's images are, they are incredibly hard to work with. And I had the crappiest verions of this image to work from. The nice and big version at MangaStyle had a crease over Neph and Makoto and Zoi was half cut off. The nice and whole version that they had was shit quality and it was too small. If I were to resize it, the quality would be even worse.
The hardest thing to do with the image was to figure out a way as to how to incorperate all couples onto the page. And this is where all the variations came up. This turned out to be the best way. But to make it all lovely, I went ahead and did 3 other main focuses, hence the sub versions.
Mamoru always tend to come up on my Sailor Moon layouts. He just has to be in there somehow, whether as the focus, as the background, or maybe it's just a small detail that only I would notice. In this case, he comes up as Endymion in the version with Kunzite and Minako. He's faded behind Kunzite at the top left hand corner. 1. Because I'm of the opinion that the guardians are too dutiful to let themselves fall in love with their masters always at the back of their minds. 2. Because I'm secretly rooting for Mamoru/Kunzite (I blame Spirit-hime's
Resonating Light) and 3. I just love Mamoru ^^ Serenity is there too, but I was far less concerned with making her apparent. You can see her Odangos.
In case anyone was wondering about the text background. The top left hand corner of the content area reads "Kunzite Minako Nephrite Makoto Zoisite Ami Jadeite Rei"; the bottom right hand corner of the content area reads "Prince Princess / Guardians Brothers Sisters"; and the main background with "Kunzite Venus Neprhite Jupiter Zoisite Merucry Jadeite Mars Serenity Endymion Kunzite / Prince Shitennou Princess Senshi"