440's Photomode Gallery - Forza 3 *Update 6/18/2010* Hemi Challenger
- Thread starter 440 CHARGER
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- Midnight City
- RetroGiant
- TheRetroGiant
I think that should about cover it.
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- Midnight City
- RetroGiant
- TheRetroGiant
I personally would have saved that puppy for a possible tournament entry. Incredible!
- 8,480
- P_Balance
Those are awesome 440, but how did you the blur so rough looking in the tank car shot? Noise? Lots of sharpen? mine always turn out all smooth.
- 3,978
- Netherlands
Wow man that's such a sweet Z-Tune. 👍 But lets save the drooling for the Tank Car. I don't know hwo you did it but you learned what Franz said in 2 and a half hour. And I didn't even understand what Franz said. 
So much left to learn. Damn those pics are just too good to be true. 👍
I don't know hwo you did it but you learned what Franz said in 2 and a half hour. And I didn't even understand what Franz said. So much left to learn. Damn those pics are just too good to be true. 👍
- 1,901
- Indianapolis, IN
- GTNic84
- Nic84
PERFECT BALANCE
Yeah, I used noise to get that little bit of roughness. It makes it look a little cleaner and gives it a texture that you lose most of time when you motion blur. It does'nt look so muddy either. I also sharpened it up a little bit too. So a combination of both really.
Thanks for the compliments everyone. It still does'nt look nearly as good as franz's Pagani in my opinion. The blur looks ok, but the shot as a whole just does'nt look as good. I may rework my layer overlays and try to get a softer, more realistic look and repost it later.
Thanks again!
- 1,580
great shot man! the blurring is very amazing! the car looks extremely realistic! great job man
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The car is awesome, the blur is awesome, the shadows are AWESOME, and the whole compostion is well done. BTW are there any Cut&paste tutorials out there? Still dont understand who to do it.
BTW are there any Cut&paste tutorials out there? Still dont understand who to do it. 
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- StReeTz166
That is Impeccable.
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- Adelaide
- Revolution52
Hi 440,
Nice work with these updates. The tank car shots are ok, but the corner blur shots could use some work. I'll post up a tutorial this weekend in my gallery if I get time.
The Nismo shot is very nice, and I can appreciate the amount of cleaning work that has gone into it. Well done.
Nice work with these updates. The tank car shots are ok, but the corner blur shots could use some work. I'll post up a tutorial this weekend in my gallery if I get time.
The Nismo shot is very nice, and I can appreciate the amount of cleaning work that has gone into it. Well done.
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- Indianapolis, IN
- GTNic84
- Nic84
Thanks everybody! And thanks Rev, I am still figuring some things out with it. I think you have to take your shot according to what you can do in photoshop. And speaking of tutorials, I have breifly come up with one on the cut and paste wheel method that has been requested.
CUTTING AND PASTING BLURRED WHEELS FROM SEPERATE SHOTS
Step One:
Take 3 shots with the arperature all the way up to 22. One focused on the front wheel with low shutter speed. (1/60 - 1/200) One focused on the rear wheel with low shutter speed. (1/60 - 1/200) And one focused on the car with 1/4000 shutter speed. Make sure you remember where the [+] cursor is on the picture so you can referece where to move it back to after you focus on the wheels. Also, keep in mind the mm you are shooting the shot at in case you have to zoom in or out to get focused properly on the wheels. That being said, here are three shots I took:
Step Two:
Make a selection around your wheels in the blurred shots with an edge feather of 1. You don't have to be exact unless there are details on the tires like letters or white walls or something like that. Than just drag them from the shot you selected it from and drop it on top of the shot you want to paste them on, as shown in the above two shots.
Step Three:
Move the wheels into the proper location. If enlargement of the wheels is desired, free tranform them and move them into the correct position as shown in the shot above.
Step Five:
Since the whole purpose of cutting and pasting wheels is so that you can have perfectly blurred wheels with a prefectly crips car, you are probably going to want to blur the background as well, so here is a breif explanation of how I do it.
Make a selection around the car. Get as close to the edge as possible. Zoom in to 700% if you have to. Don't forget to cut out the windows if you can see the background in them. Be careful not to lose any reflectoins in the glass if you do. It should like the picture I have shown above.
Step Six:
Next you will want to duplicate the base layer, and using your selection you just created, copy the car and paste it on a new layer. Than duplicate the base layer once more and using the same selection you used for the car, delete the car out of the layer. Than duplicate the layer several times as shown above.
Than you will want to motion blur the background one layer at a time, using the layers you cut the car out of. Start with the layer top layer and make it the most blurred. Progress down to the last layer with the car cut out of it, decreasing the amount of blur by 10-15 pixels each time, until you have blurred all of the layers. This makes the blurring completely seamless without any trace of clear background around the car.
Than, make a few levels adjustments and your pic should look like this one below.
Step One:
Take 3 shots with the arperature all the way up to 22. One focused on the front wheel with low shutter speed. (1/60 - 1/200) One focused on the rear wheel with low shutter speed. (1/60 - 1/200) And one focused on the car with 1/4000 shutter speed. Make sure you remember where the [+] cursor is on the picture so you can referece where to move it back to after you focus on the wheels. Also, keep in mind the mm you are shooting the shot at in case you have to zoom in or out to get focused properly on the wheels. That being said, here are three shots I took:
Step Two:
Make a selection around your wheels in the blurred shots with an edge feather of 1. You don't have to be exact unless there are details on the tires like letters or white walls or something like that. Than just drag them from the shot you selected it from and drop it on top of the shot you want to paste them on, as shown in the above two shots.
Step Three:
Move the wheels into the proper location. If enlargement of the wheels is desired, free tranform them and move them into the correct position as shown in the shot above.
Step Five:
Since the whole purpose of cutting and pasting wheels is so that you can have perfectly blurred wheels with a prefectly crips car, you are probably going to want to blur the background as well, so here is a breif explanation of how I do it.
Make a selection around the car. Get as close to the edge as possible. Zoom in to 700% if you have to. Don't forget to cut out the windows if you can see the background in them. Be careful not to lose any reflectoins in the glass if you do. It should like the picture I have shown above.
Step Six:
Next you will want to duplicate the base layer, and using your selection you just created, copy the car and paste it on a new layer. Than duplicate the base layer once more and using the same selection you used for the car, delete the car out of the layer. Than duplicate the layer several times as shown above.
Than you will want to motion blur the background one layer at a time, using the layers you cut the car out of. Start with the layer top layer and make it the most blurred. Progress down to the last layer with the car cut out of it, decreasing the amount of blur by 10-15 pixels each time, until you have blurred all of the layers. This makes the blurring completely seamless without any trace of clear background around the car.
Than, make a few levels adjustments and your pic should look like this one below.
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- GTP_Div
That blur technique is brilliant 👍
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- P_Balance
I use Revolutions method of wheel blur, which looks a lot smoother than this method, but I guess I wouldn't have a choice if I needed to see the calipers.
Great turorial. 👍
Great turorial. 👍
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- Indianapolis, IN
- GTNic84
- Nic84
PERFECT BALANCE
Yeah, it might not be as smooth, but it looks more natural, which is what I am after. It's blurred how it should be, because, well, it's a real blur that GT4 created, so there is no reason to blur it any further. But sometimes you can't even get the blur right from GT4, so you would have to use a different method.
And no gt_masta, daan did not suggest I make a tutorial, but if he would like to put this in the tutorial thread thing or whatever, that is totaly fine by me.
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very cool tutorial 440! its very simular to the technique i use but u focused on 1 wheel at a time, absolutely brilliant! i have to try this out. thanks alot for posting this
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- Toronto
- NewAesthetic
- SlipZtrEm
I too use Rev's method, because to me, if I'm going to be blurring the background, taking a couple minutes to blur the wheels isn't a problem. Plus as you mentioned 440, your method can be used for wheel enlargement, something I know is of no use other than our galleries and the Photoshop comp.
That being said though, I never even thought about the calipers, so I'll have to give this a try. I also still only use a layer or two for my background blurs, so I also should check out how much smoother they can be doing it this way. A very straight-forward and easy-to-follow tutorial, good job 👍
That being said though, I never even thought about the calipers, so I'll have to give this a try. I also still only use a layer or two for my background blurs, so I also should check out how much smoother they can be doing it this way. A very straight-forward and easy-to-follow tutorial, good job 👍
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Now maybe im not thinking this through but how does this work out if the transparency for all the blurred layers is 100%? Wouldnt the first blurred background just stand in front of the rest?
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- Indianapolis, IN
- GTNic84
- Nic84
Lord Nicon
Yes, the top layer is what you see for the most part. But since it has more pixels blurred, you will see a gap between the car and the background where pixels are lost due to the blur. So you have to add more layers of lesser blur to fill in that gap and keep it from looking un-blurred. If you look around GTP enough in other's galleries, you will see some blurred shots where there is clear background just around the edges of the car while the rest of the background is blurred. This method that I use elimates the clear background.
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