Bram Turismo's Gallery - Tournament Round 1 before/after -
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- cod_father_204
Very nice shot. So sparkley
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- Belgium
- bramturismo
Thanks alot guys 👍
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👍 Now it's your chair's turn mate, you've broken two pieces of mine 
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👍 Now it's your chair's turn mate, you've broken two pieces of mine 
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- bramturismo
Well, what I do is to use a Lens blur on the bigger areas with the same colour. In the areas where there are originally much reflections, I just smudge it. The shinyness is because I added little bright sparcles with the dodge tool 👍
Behind the back window, under the rear wing, you can clearly see I used three different steps of the blur 👍
On a sky though, a trick to get it clean is to use a shape blur 👍
Behind the back window, under the rear wing, you can clearly see I used three different steps of the blur 👍
On a sky though, a trick to get it clean is to use a shape blur 👍
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- bramturismo
Here's a closer look to what I do, I hope it'll inspire some of you since it's very easy although time slaughtering:
What I do is take a general look around the car, I try to spot the big surfaces without any major reflections. In the picture below, you can clearly see how I select the different areas and add a Lens blur to it. This blur seems to work like a smudging machine, as does the Shape blur tool with a jaggy sky 👍 What you'll notice too is that it takes enormous amounts of time. This screenshot is taken while I was working on my new update. I was a little over an hour into this shot and the only major job I've done besides cleaning up is blurring. So as you can see, it takes time and it's certaintly not suitably for pictures which you just want to get clean in a second. You can also notice that the corners between each area is a little blocky so the smooth them out and get them more in a balanched line is simply smudging them or just add a blur which smoothen it out only to the area where the blocky corners are. The rest is simply smudging, if you'll begin with blurring everything, it won't look nice, believe me. The sparcles is very simple, you need to search and area with a minimum of reflection, for example a light blue reflection on the door or something. Just grab the dodge tool, set it to 100% (maybe set it to airbrush option as well...) and just create a little white ball. Then, set it back to 10,20 or even just 5 to smooth out the light in a direction which corresponds to the reflection. I might just make my first PS tutorial on this...
What I do is take a general look around the car, I try to spot the big surfaces without any major reflections. In the picture below, you can clearly see how I select the different areas and add a Lens blur to it. This blur seems to work like a smudging machine, as does the Shape blur tool with a jaggy sky 👍 What you'll notice too is that it takes enormous amounts of time. This screenshot is taken while I was working on my new update. I was a little over an hour into this shot and the only major job I've done besides cleaning up is blurring. So as you can see, it takes time and it's certaintly not suitably for pictures which you just want to get clean in a second. You can also notice that the corners between each area is a little blocky so the smooth them out and get them more in a balanched line is simply smudging them or just add a blur which smoothen it out only to the area where the blocky corners are. The rest is simply smudging, if you'll begin with blurring everything, it won't look nice, believe me
. The sparcles is very simple, you need to search and area with a minimum of reflection, for example a light blue reflection on the door or something. Just grab the dodge tool, set it to 100% (maybe set it to airbrush option as well...) and just create a little white ball. Then, set it back to 10,20 or even just 5 to smooth out the light in a direction which corresponds to the reflection. I might just make my first PS tutorial on this...
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- GTNic84
- Nic84
Yep, that's how I added in the glossy look as well to my shots. Looks very nice Ultrashot!👍
Edit... Oh I guess you are Pink. You know you should'nt cheat, it never pays off!
(Just messin around there)
Oh, and to get the transparent look, you need to not mess with transparencies but make the background color of your presentation the same as the background color in the forum window. To copy the same color exactly, just hold control and print_screen and it will copy the image on your screen and then paste it on a new layer in Photoshop and use the eyedropper tool to copy the color exactly. That's a helpful hint in making those cool looking presentations.👍
Edit... Oh I guess you are Pink. You know you should'nt cheat, it never pays off!
(Just messin around there)Oh, and to get the transparent look, you need to not mess with transparencies but make the background color of your presentation the same as the background color in the forum window. To copy the same color exactly, just hold control and print_screen and it will copy the image on your screen and then paste it on a new layer in Photoshop and use the eyedropper tool to copy the color exactly. That's a helpful hint in making those cool looking presentations.👍
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- bramturismo
Yep, that's how I added in the glossy look as well to my shots. Looks very nice Ultrashot!👍
Edit... Oh I guess you are Pink. You know you should'nt cheat, it never pays off!
Oh, and to get the transparent look, you need to not mess with transparencies but make the background color of your presentation the same as the background color in the forum window. To copy the same color exactly, just hold control and print_screen and it will copy the image on your screen and then paste it on a new layer in Photoshop and use the eyedropper tool to copy the color exactly. That's a helpful hint in making those cool looking presentations.👍
That's how you guys do it 👍
I knew it was something with the eyedropper tool but I had no idea what
Thanks! 👍
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- Belgium
- bramturismo
Audi RS4
I am statisfied on this one, as you can see, the front quite failed because the contrast in colors was too high on the hood but once you've got the right colors and you use this method, it's beautiful. I'm pointing to the doors now, those are really well IMO. Together with this shot, I took a shot of the scenery as well, it gets forgotten too much these days
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I am statisfied on this one, as you can see, the front quite failed because the contrast in colors was too high on the hood but once you've got the right colors and you use this method, it's beautiful. I'm pointing to the doors now, those are really well IMO. Together with this shot, I took a shot of the scenery as well, it gets forgotten too much these days
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- Dead_Poetic
- Jamal is Legend
Very nice job, Bram!
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- Belgium
- bramturismo
Thanks, and D_P, sorry for my big mouth in the comps, I shouldn't have said that
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- Bradopoly
Great shots Ultra, the Audi shot looks very cool. The background shot is very nicely captured. Love it. Great work. 👍
Check out my new shots if you have the time.
Check out my new shots if you have the time.
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- Dead_Poetic
- Jamal is Legend
...but its ok i guess..haha.
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very good restart, i like the shots alot, keep it up dude!! 👍
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- Belgium
- bramturismo
Thanks guys 👍
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- Belgium
- bramturismo
Thanks Cas 👍
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- Belgium
- bramturismo
Thanks 👍
Nissan Skyline GT-R
These updates are not as good as the NSX shots, in the first one, I need some help on blurring correct. I used the free transform, skew but noce of what I've tried gave me a perfect blur. Help on this would be greatly appreciated 👍 The second isn't perfect at all, I think the basic photo itself wasn't perfect but hey! Always room for improvements 👍 Please comment 
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great picture! i couldnt find anything wrong with it. It just bueatiful.KEEP IT UP!
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