Best way to blend cut off image edges into dark shirt?
I got a desire to make a custom shirt from uberprints and looking for advice with the images I want to use since its going to cost $30 dollars for the shirt. Im new to photoshop and spent hours learning/trying to do this and this is what I got so far:
Unedited images:

As you can see the cut off portions of the top wings of first photograph and cut off top of second photograph will look like crap on a shirt. Using gradient tool, I darkened these cutoff points, I then used magic eraser with 1 tolerance and erased enough to fade them in better. Here is my best results:
http://www.uberprints.com/studio?tdid=739297&tdtok=6axgpechalmusio5t1ha
Are there in other ways and what would be the most effective being aesthetically pleasing?

