[fotodoug2]

Well HB, thank you for the compliments!  I don't know Gimp, and I intentionally don't use professional equipment.  Ken of KensRedZed has been to my place, and has seen what I use to light...one desk lamp!  The one thing I always tell anyone who wants to take photos of these cars is to get down to their level.  If you were to photograph a real car, chances are, you wouldn't get on some scaffolding, and shoot down on the car.  I have seen shots of real cars done that way, but not very often.  One other piece of advice is don't shine the light directly on the car, or if you do, diffuse it.  A white garbage bag stretched over a sheet of foamcore works really well.  It's cheap (get it at the dollar store), and cut a 1'x1' hole in it, stretch the garbage bag over it, and put it between the car and your light source.  That will get rid of any hot spots, and you can put reflectors made from the piece of foamcore you cut out, around the car to make it look the way you want.  If you want a cheap, but good processing program, Affinity Photo is as good as Photoshop!  When I bought that program it was new, and it came with 10 licenses...PM me and I will provide you with one of them for free...I've got 7 spares that aren't used!
Keep up the good work!