What do you think - My first attempt!

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BlackStorm

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Hey,
What do you think of the two images below.
The first is an image of a subaru impreza, the second is the same image but I just did a bit of work on it.

I had nothing to do today and was being lazy so decided to give virtual car modding a go :D

Saw a site on it a few days ago and some people done amazing work, the cars looked totally different, dont think Im anywhere near that level yet hehe

www.jdnation.com/Subaru-Impreza-037.jpg
www.jdnation.com/JDImpreza.gif

NOTE: Images are pretty big, might take a while to load on 56k
 
Looks good! The only thing I'd see different is the letters in the door need to be angled a little with the perspective and the car itself shouldn't be blurry.

Are you using Photoshop? I can run through how to do it very easily if you are. There's even a few simple things to make the door letters look like they are reflecting the background too.
 
I will try find it for you gooooogle

Hey Kyle!!
Great to see you back :D

Yeah I did it in photoshop
I tried to change the letters on the door but they looked really distorted
I didnt want the car to be blurry but when I was going around it and selecting the blur I must have gone into the car a bit or something.

The letters are still in a seperate layer but everything else has been put into the one layer so I cant edit those.

Just thought I would put photoshop to use because I dont use it very often and I would like to get a bit of practice with it :)
 
Its a good start! Most people wouldn't get as ambitious as you did.

You can use the pentool or the lasso that looks like it's bent. I use the second a lot and jsut carefully work your way around it. Then copy it to a new layer and blur the one under it.

As for the letters, you could just angle them a tiny bit clockwise toward the front of the car and that would work. Then make a new layer over them and use the paint brush set to almost nothing in the Pressure setting and paint in a little darkness over it.

The lights and the lense flare work great.
 
Thanks!
I will have to give that a go later, I didnt even think about making a new layer for doing the blur but I should have done that.
Im a disaster going around objects with the lasso tool, I end up going all over the place :lol:

Started using the magnetic lasso tool though and thats working a lot better
 
Yeah but that's a chancy thing as you've seen. Sometimes it goes into things you don't want, especially when the colors are close. You can set the radius of the magnet in the three boxes in the tool options to very low so they select consider only colors very close to the one you click on.

In the case of this image, I'd grab just inside the car so that the blur below will still have elements of it while keeping the main part clear.
 
Not really. That's what every Photoshop user learns as the SAVE AS lesson. LOL Once you've done something, save it as soemthing else so you don't lose the clean version.

Technically you could but that's a lot of work.
 
Either save it as a clean version, or do all your work with layers and save a clean layer and the layer you "worked on".

Layers are your friend. :D

- this, from the woman who found the maximum number of layers in a Photoshop file
 
Hahaha... way to make John feel good about himself Robert :)

John not too bad for your first try. At least you are learning new things on your extra time and not wasting it.
 
Here's a quick thing I did this morning with your untouched image above.

Subaru JPEG

I roughly cut out the car and copy and pasted it to a new layer. A quick motion blur of the background and then a mask blur of the background to give it a focus to the car. Sepia toned the background to match the reflections of the car. Then selected the car on the car layer and contracted selection 2px the inverted and gaussian blurred at 1.5 to bled to background and that's it.

Here is the PSD for the art if you want it (4.5Mb in CS):
Photoshop doc of work
 
Hey,
That looks great :)
But the effect I was looking to do was edit the car more and doing the background was just something to add to it.

I didnt do too much on the car but there are differences, if you look closely you will see them :)

The background on yours looks great, the tree seems to look a lot better, it looks like its infront of the car then the background behind the car gives the image some "distance"
Not sure how to explain it but it looks very good :)
 
This was just a quick demo on the cutout and how easy it can be. The main problem I had with the image was that it was too white to begin with and didn't match the colors reflecting off the car. That alone made it a bit off putting.

The you ad the grandure of the background and while the car looks great, it's dwarfed by it's setting.

You can add in all the bits you like with the headlights and the door graphics.
 
Hey its not bad for a 1st try mate! Most people i know cant even do that! What you need to do is look at other peoples work, and look at some tutorials, that will help alot!
 
Not bad for your first attempt. You will learn how to blend it in correctly. Another thing is to use same quility of images though out the image ;)
 
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