Can't its a photo not a picture and the background color varies
You should still be able to use stretch/skew to make it bigger, unless it's
really tiny
@an alien: have you considered just doing a palette swap of hope for your glowy figure? it'd be a lot easier, and it'd certainly work for art at least up through armory.
On a side note, would people mind editing their request posts when they're filled? I'm having trouble keeping track of which posts have been filled and which haven't.