Personally I like the transformers one better. It uses more colors and is very vibrant. It doesn't have a bunch of bright colors, but it does catch your eye when you see the red. You could possible add a brighter color for the brownish color, that would make it look a bit more appealing.
As for the first one, the person really shouldn't be faded out like that, if you want to do something like that try and use 4 layers, 1 overlay, 1 blur, 1 color change, and an invert or something. The flat blue, really isn't all that appealing. The background doesn't look very good either, the lines are repeatetive and aren't very.. Artistic, if I could say. The effect is nice, but the text is a little off center and the colors don't match the picture colors what-so-ever.
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Hope to see more work from you later on, your beginning work is excellent for your skill level.