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my biggest problem is finding pix like a side skirt or such

hm yes.. if you really cant find it, go to http://www.digimods.co.uk and copy
one of his skirts. as long as you state that beneath your pic when you
are done with it; he brushes his skirts himself.
in the end you will also end up not finding the right sideskirts and bumpers
but then you will brush them yourself too.

i normally look there for inspiration and then start brushing

i sorry i r teh noob...i dont get how to brush the insane shit like that

i usually just select what i want to brush, brush it and then smudge
the colors together to mix em

smudge tool = teh bomb

ok im to where i want to color it...i havent done it before with other colors on it such as sideskirts ...im using the tut form digimods..bur when i color the pick there still visable...HELP ME

first, make sure the skirts and the car are in different layers.
in the car layer, select the contours of the car (i usually use the
polygonal lasso tool for that. if you click a wrong point, press the
backspace button). the contours, so the whole car body without
the windows etc that dont need to be colored.

now after selecting the contours, press [Ctrl-Shift-U] or go to [Image-
Adjustments-Desaturate]. now your car body is in greyscale.

do the same with the skirts and bumpers. you will notice a difference
in strength of the grey colors. with [Image-Adjustments-Brightness/contrast]
change the brightnesses so that they fit with the grey colors of the rest of
the car.

now click the layers of the car/skirts, rightclick em and merge the layers.
next, select the whole car including sideskirts (if you change background
you dont have to do that. just because the background color might also
slightly change). after selection, go to [Image-Adjustments-Selective Color].

pick Neutrals from the colors and then start playing around with the RGB
colors and the light till you found a color that suits your car.

edit: thats the fun of brushing.. you will always have the right color
since you use the cars own colors.

lets say hypothetically i already merged the laters...do i have to us lasso and agust the britness

was my fault too in the beginning. nowadays i save the .psd in a
different name everytime i make big changes like merging all layers.

you can still do it though. you can select the whole car, desaturate
it and try either 1) selecting the darker parts and changing the
brightness on that, or 2) work a bit with the eraser tool on a low
opacity and smudge the border between lighter and darker together
so it flows nicely into eachother.

then do the selective color.

its just important that in grayscale the colors match. if not, then you
will have for example a light green car with a strong, dark green skirt,
so it will look like you did a bad job getting a paintjob

i ..... up the front wheel well and the coloring so stfu about that but otherwise i kinda like it

i worked ahead to i already did another pic XD



http://www.wallpaper.net.au/wallpaper/a ... 00x600.jpg

http://www.autovia.com/extras/wallpaper ... gtr_10.jpg


lol i learn quickly dont i LOL

not bad for starter

you have good ideas. the skirts and bumpers fit together.
next time, try to also work on the background a bit, by
either keeping the old one or changing into a different one.
that also helps the image of the car.

want to give it another try? we can pick a car with an easy
to find angle on it. cars with an angle mostly have good to
find donor cars.

i have been looking...i kinda like the idea of a skyline???what do u think

yes skyline will do fine. lets try find a normal one, not a gtr
its hard to pimp an already fat lookin car

awww i love the gtr lol
http://digilander.libero.it/Logiko2031/ ... T-R%20(R33)%20-%201.jpg

ohh this looks like a good one
http://nissanskylineclub.free.fr/photos ... %20GTR.jpg

hm ya it looks good but its a bit too pimped already imo >_<

*tears* lol its ok u find a good learners car

id like to take one of those, but..

the first one is too blurry so really hard to pimp
the second one is too small image

edit: how about this one

http://www.dragonspeed.co.uk/images/r33_add.jpg

so that one it shall be?

turn it into a gtr style yourself ^^

the other images were just too difficult to work on.

SO MUCH WORK!

take your time

lol replying ti to much work do u have xfire or msn? u can pm it to me so u dont end up with alot of stalkers bsideds me....uhhhh you didnt hear that

XD ill pm u my msn.. lol no i wont its in my profile i think
use ur 1337 uber finding hax

there it is ...dont be too harsh

ficed the glow round the intake

okiedo. here are my comments.
ppl note that this is NOT flaming this is just some tips for next time

- i think putting the mustang front on was a great idea and its nicely done.
the only thing about the bumper that doesnt really work is the lack of
reflections. these are hard to get on bumpers and you will almost never
find one with the right reflections. it is just a matter of learning how to get
the reflects on to get rid of that problem.
same for the skirt. looks good but would look better with a reflecion on it

- the coloring is quite good. its again because of the lack of reflection that the
coloring looks a bit nasty on some spots. because of this, the car looks like
its half made of metallic green painted metal, and on some spot it looks like
it is made out of sandpapered plastic.

last but not least.. the gray parts. make em black after u accidently
desaturate em

but i have to give props to you. this is the 2nd one i see from you, and
compared to the first one (yas that blue one!) i give it a 15/10

for normal rating, atm i give it a 6,5/10. keep on rocking

so is anybody else interested in giving it a try? our next victim car
will be a mazda mx5 high res.

if you are afraid you will mess things up, just post it here anyway
and we will give you some advise and tips. i started off with
absolutely NO photoshop skill and a friend who did this sometimes
in his spare time. imo its a good way of wasting time and creating
something you like

plz, its more fun with more ppl so we can make polls and maybe
a "best car pimper chart" or whatever =)

i know there are no reflections on the front bumper and the front wheel is messed up...GET OVER IT!

but here it is!!!

ive read the tutorials and LASSO tool is always used here.. damn thats hard. Everytime i use the lasso tool, i cant make a perfect Selection... any tips?