Awesome Photo, I need your super powers to fix!

[Alliah]

I took this photo just playing around and now I'm very interested in making it the best it can be......only I have no skills. :sad:

Can anyone re-whitewall the dirty rings around the tire? they USE to be white. Anything else you can clean up I'd be grateful

 

[sprucemagoo1]

Please read my post in your other thread.
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[Nlalston]

Hi there. First, allow me to state that my effort is nowhere near what Chad did, but I am always up to trying my hand on such matters. I am yet a Photoshop fledgling, but wanted to give this a shot. I am amazed at how Chad addressed the mirrored portion of the wheel. He got it as 'clean as a whistle' - and it looks really, really good.
All that 'I' really did was tackle the tire's white wall. I know that Chad did the same, also, but I wanted to share with you 'how' I did it.
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1). I used the Magic Wand Tool to make a selection of the white-walled areas.

2). Then I used the Polygonal Lasso Tool, in the 'Subtract from selection' mode, to remove the portion of my selection's overflow onto the black side.

3). Next, I hit 'Ctrl+J' to put my selection on its own layer.

4). I selected the 'Screen' blending mode, and hit 'Ctrl+J' a second, and a third time. That effort gave me the the selection's degree of whiteness that I sought for.
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Mine, may very well be the most kindergarten-ish )) approach to dealing with something like this, but it is all that I knew to do - at this time. It would be interesting to find how others may have handled the job. By the way, I thought that your image was a VERY NICE capture.

Blessings,
Nathan

 

[sprucemagoo1]

You may want to look for a tutorial on the pen tool in YouTube. It is what I used to make a selection of the differnt elements of the tyres, as the pen tool uses paths, which are totally smooth, as they use mathematical equations to create the curves. the rest is just duplicating the different bits and playing with blending options, sharpness, and contrast etc. I only ever mess about with images, I don't know what I'm doing most of the time.

Welcome to Gurus by the way, and if you need any help learning anything, just let us know.

 

[MikeMc]

I used the quick selection to pickout the whitewalls, went to quickmask to clean up the edges, then filled the selection with white...real quick.

 

[sprucemagoo1]

Using the pen tool may seem like a lengthy prosses at first, but when you are used to it, the results are literally infinitely better.

 

[MikeMc]

Using the pen tool may seem like a lengthy prosses at first, but when you are used to it, the results are literally infinitely better.

No question about the pen tool . In this case I spent all of 2 minutes doing a quick select and fill. The beauty of PS is the different ways to do a task. It would take me at least 10 minutes to draw that...I'm not that sure with the pen on those long stretches! :banghead:

 

[Dataflow]

here is my effort

 

[Nlalston]

Using the pen tool may seem like a lengthy prosses at first, but when you are used to it, the results are literally infinitely better.

Yes, Chad, I must agree with you. Evidence of that is very clear from the different examples of the OP's photo. I thought that all were worthy efforts, but yours presented the most defined lines. By that, I can now determine that the 'Pen Tool' is all that I've heard it cracked up to be and, quite possibly, even more. I have just viewed some YouTube tuts, on using the 'Pen Tool', and am anxiously looking forward to developing a very adept talent at using it.