Howdy all

[bailey]

ay up you lot hope you are all well.
i have been quite ill just lately and it seems that i have got into photoshopping cars and small projects but i am looking into getting better.

 

[fenix]

Hi & Welcome to PSG!

 

[$1r_M4x1mu$]

Hi bailey

Welcome to PSG.

Improving your PS skills is always good, feel free to ask anything PS related.

Good luck.

 

[bailey]

just need 4 post and i will show you some of my **** project

 

[Paul]

Ay up our kid, rewind on the language please.
welcome aboard northern lad.
Show what you got then.

 

[iDad]

oh goodie.......... $hit coming

 

[bailey]

its not that good sorry about the swearing

 

[Paul]

Post away then northern lad

 

[bailey]

i did this last night i cannot seem to get into a project so just do them very fast


this one i started today got bored so thought go back to it later bailey so i think this is the way forward


i found a tutorial on the fish eye lense effect so i had a bash at that


first ever chop i did not even on ps but i dont think it come out mega bad

 

[Paul]

I see you like your cars mate, what you running?
How are you doing these images mate, could you explain to our members please, tips and short cuts will no doubt follow.

 

[bailey]

what do you mean what am i running if you are PS i have CS5 extended

if you are on about cars my own cars are a vectra c 1.8 sri and a frontera 3.2 v6

erm what do you want to no about how i did them dude

 

[Paul]

Dude...that gets you no merit points this evening young sir.
I meant what car you driving, you have answered that in some detail - Fronteras are a bit dated now though, maybe it's a vauxhall thing you have going on mate?
I have a vauxhall monster myself, it's a 3.5 litre commodore exec goes like stink in a clean room.
Tell me and the rest of us reading this how you made the car images please.

 

[bailey]

found the inmage i wanted
duplicate the background use the polygon lasso to select the car and the top of the image to lower the car hit ctrl+c then ctrl+v drag the car your desired amnount lower. lowering done.
wheels find a image of the wheels you want and you the eliptical tool i think its called to select the wheel cut and paste into your image adjust till it looks right in the arch thats how i do wheels.
paint i agian select with lasso and duplicate incase you have to vut windows back to the right colour the go to image, hue/saturation, the make sure you are colourising and adjust the sliders till you hve the colour you want. mask and deleat the cloured windows and there you have it most of the images i do

 

[Paul]

Thats one way mate, no one way is the best or the worst remember that.

 

[bailey]

take it there are easyer ways is there

 

[Paul]

try using a bit of burn as a shadow maker around the one side of the rims just to give a little more realism maybe?

Layer masks is another way.

 

[Paul]

try this it might help some Non-Destructive Dodge and Burn in Photoshop

 

[Hoogle]

to succesfully darken the colour of the car and still keep shine if you want the grey/ black change I prefer to go into the channels pallet and copy the channel that has the best matching colour and then mask it back in in a new layer above the car following with a slight hue saturation to mimic some of the enviroments colours to get a more realistic reflection.

 

[bailey]

i like what you have done it looks really good but what you said it just gobblydygook to me sorry very very novice at this photoshop malarky

 

[Hoogle]

make a selection of the car colour you want to change in this case it was red on your layers panel you should see a tab called channels control click the 1 that has the best colour as they will all be greyscale then edit > copy go back to your layers panel and edit > paste you should see a greyscale copy of your image on top now then making sure you still have the red selected apply a layer mask and it should mask out everything else bt the car colour change. But maybe it is best to get to know your way around photoshop first.