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#9 Kasey Kahne Mopar/Bud Light Dodge Charger

One sponsor (Mopar) is freakishly awesome. The other (Bud Light) is one of the banes of my Straight Edge existence. hence the title.

Bit of a remake from last year, using a new camo pattern (digital) and a new theme for the white part. The blues I used for the camo represent the team (Petty Motorsports) and the sponsors.

Not much to say. Enjoy.

UPDATE: Did some editing, per DP's suggestions.

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:iconavenger41:
I had a feeling you'd like this.

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:iconknucxsonia:
Oooo...pretty.

The use of the blue is awesome...and I've noticed the barbed wire. At first I didn't :XD: It's pretty cool, though. You deserve a thumbs up.

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I like stars :heart:

Even cowgirls like a little bit of heavy metal. \m/

I know, from echid-hog to wolf-dragon. Tryin' to be original here.
:iconavenger41:
DAMN RIGHT I DO.

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:iconknucxsonia:
XD OK then *thumbs up*

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KxS.......the odd named female....

I like stars :heart:

Even cowgirls like a little bit of heavy metal. \m/

I know, from echid-hog to wolf-dragon. Tryin' to be original here.
:icondarkphazon395:
Hmm... I don't know if it'd look better this way, but if you haven't thought about it, maybe it'd be good to try out the numbers in different colors (at least on the sides). Secondly, that white spot on the front of the sideskirts is bugging me for some reason. Thirdly, it may be a good idea to have more of a white outline around the Charter logo (at least the logo; depending on how that'd look, it may or may not be good to also outline the text), because as it stands, the logo gets very lost in the blue design.

Overall though, I really like how sharp this looks, and the fading from white to that blue pattern. (though I think it'd also look good as a full Mopar scheme) Nice work!!

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:iconavenger41:
In order...

I think the numbers on the original "Bling Bling" from '04 were white on white, so that's why I did that. Still, I'll give the reverse a shot.

The "White spot" on the skirts is actually supposed to be a cutout on the skirts, and thus, it's a continuation of the sheet metal behind the skirts. All be normal there.

I'll see what I can do with the Charter logo. The symbol being purple like that is kind of hard to work with on a background such as this.

Anyways, I'll try everything listed and get back to ya.

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:icondarkphazon395:
I know on the die-cast I have of Kahne's old Mopar scheme (I think from 2005, because it's a Charger that I have), the scheme fades to blue and gray where the numbers are, so the numbers end up being white on blue/gray. I think the black does look a bit better, though (a dark Mopar blue would have been another color I would have tried, but I'd really have to make sure through the car-viewer that it didn't make the numbers too similar in color to the back, as that could cause the same issue as the white numbers did, but in reverse ^^; ).

As for the Charter logo... I don't know if this is something you've thought of to do quick borders, but in many cases, I just copy the
image I want to put a border around, and paste it directly behind the image. Then I color fill that pasted image with the color I want the border. Next I just shift it one pixel in any direction. I keep doing that until I fill all eight directions you can adjust one pixel, directionally (left, down-left, down, down-right, etc.), and flatten all those color-filled images into one image (just to keep my layers neat and somewhat organized).

I know I noticed from some of your files that for borders, you commonly use whatever Photoshop's equivalent to the "Glow" option is, and I know that in Fireworks at least, that doesn't always work out too well with smaller images. The only issue I've noticed with the method I mentioned is that it doesn't always work as well on angled points.

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Yeah, I tried a couple things with the Charter logo, and all of em either obscured it more, or just didn't look too eye pleasing.

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