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Hi Rob, Great image! I can see the cut outs but only just. I have a very well calibrated Eizo monitor and I had to stretch the image to know what I was looking for first.
To help creating images like this on a monitor which doesn't show such deep shadow detail try this technique:
Create a curves adjustment layer in photoshop and place it at the top of your document. Make the curve a massive upwards curve to brighten the image to a ridiculous level. This will show you what the shadows are doing. Now adjust the edges of any cut outs to make them nice and smooth (preferably by adjusting the layer mask for the cut out layer). Once you have achieved a nice smooth cut out which blends nicely to black you can delete the curves layer. (this technique also works well in reverse for white backgrounds).
Hope this makes sense, but again, this is only a minor issue which probably wouldn't show up in print, and its a great image! Well done.
Dave.
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