against or for custom portrait backgrounds

[trooper]

The majority agrees with you. Maybe shipset authors will take this mini-poll into consideration when designing their next races.

Originally posted by PvK:
I tend to prefer them without. In the example below for instance, although it's a neat portrait-like effect, and would look good as wallpaper, it makes it a bit harder to see the ship itself unless you spend more effort studying it to see what's the background, and what's the ship. Without a background, the lines of the ship itself are more visible.

PvK