can anyone help me with my "smart" car :)

I took a picture of my car..(below) I then decided to make a smart car out of it.....(also below). What I cant figure out is the blending when I put the wheels back on. There is an obvious area between them where I painted. Just cant get it right...any body that would like to play with this is welcome. thanks....

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sorry. I put the wrong image size above...here it is.

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Cute idea, pretty well implemented. You are right - the seam along the kickpanel could be better. Any combination of blurring, smudging, cloning from the original, copy/pasting, etc would fix that. No right or wrong - just what works best for you.

One thought, did you thing of getting rid of the seam between the front and back doors? Make it a two-door instead of a four-door. Intuition says that that would make it look less "cartooney" if that is your intention.

As to the kickpanel - personally, I would copy/paste in a tiny piece from the original - and using a soft eraser brush I would get rid of the hard edges on the tiny piece so it looks more natural. But that's just me, as I said above, any number of paths would get you to the same end.

Rad

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nice Job Trogg

What tool/technique did you use?
Liquify?

neat idea and well done. Not for nothing but you have shadows in a few different directions on the back tire. Not hugely noticeable, just something that caught my eye. And it looks like there is a tire behind the tire. could be me. Not trying to be critical. Nice work. Wish I had the time to do this kinda stuff

Nice. I used to make these mini cars a while ago. They are pretty funny to look at.