The problem was mostly with the beer image. There are many reflections inside of it that are totally white or almost totally white. Then you have the edges which gradually go white..

Filling in the background at that point with a different color makes it look horrible as in your posted example :P jaggies around the egdes of everything.

I'm sure it's possible to make it look great if you know what you're doing and you spend a lot of time on it.. but since I am unable and unwilling to do that myself I'm settling for white :P

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