Many find the new skin epic/sexy, others think its vomit, and some find it okay.
The latter implies improvement; there's already a thread about this, but I believed posting this into the topic would've just been a waste... a bit like the "New minerals - SUCK" thread.

I've heard a lot of people complaining about the uselessness of those images in the background of forums: they hide the text, are too bright, and make the overall skin look painful to the eyes.
The major concern here is to propose a good alternative. Devourer states those images are core elements to the skin, while I do not think the same way.

Use this thread to give your suggestions in regards of those forum images, and those only.

For my part, I simply propose to remove them from the Main Forum Index, but to keep them into the individual forums, simply because they add a great touch to these.

What about you, SENers?

Indent?

I propose to move them to the right, like corboland did.

They look good there because
1) They are bigger => we see the details => we actually know what it is
2) they have more alpha to it
3) the background color is blue, which complements really well with the colors of the image

If we moved ours to the right, they'd just start hiding the Topics/Replies stats. ;o

Whether it be removal or replacement, my vote is for anything but keeping them there.

Whatever happens, there needs to be more contrast between read forums and unread forums. It's really hard to tell the difference as it is.

like this?

Much better. I like.

I did.
Yet the background stays green when marking the forum as read, will fix that later.