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Photoshopped cars.
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That Porsche is some serious artistic s:censored:. Top job.
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I wish I was able to use Photoshop properly
I wish I was able to use Photoshop properly
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Just noticed this thread's been sort of revived.
Here's some of "Team Australia's" chops for the autemo world team battle.
This one was mainly done by me:
And this one was half and half between another Australian chopper:
Original images are here: GTR: http://i39.tinypic.com/2jcbmvr.jpg
CR-Z: http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/9366/2010hondacrz24.jpg
Here's some of "Team Australia's" chops for the autemo world team battle.
This one was mainly done by me:
And this one was half and half between another Australian chopper:
Original images are here: GTR: http://i39.tinypic.com/2jcbmvr.jpg
CR-Z: http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/9366/2010hondacrz24.jpg
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This thread deserves to be revived.
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Just noticed this thread's been sort of revived.
Here's some of "Team Australia's" chops for the autemo world team battle.
This one was mainly done by me:
And this one was half and half between another Australian chopper:
Original images are here: GTR: http://i39.tinypic.com/2jcbmvr.jpg
CR-Z: http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/9366/2010hondacrz24.jpg
Ah, I had not seen these. The problem with both, I reckon, is that they have too much work in them, too much photoshop stuff going on randomly... and because of that they do not look real. The rollcage in the GTR looks absolutely photoshopped, as do ALL the reflections of the neon/streetlights. it looks like a vector piece, not a chop. In the Civic, the rain is like oh pleaze, as are the reflections pretty much everywhere. Heck, the light behind is yellos but we see white reflections in the body. Too much stuff going on, so much so that it is immediately aparent it is a chop.
Really, sometimes it's better to just keep the stuff to a minimum so they will look, you know, real, instead of showing off how much brushing you did to this and that only for it to look obviously fake. The design is quite good, specially of the GTR, but both suffer the problem above. The Civic has an incredibly awkward wheel fitment.
And yes, this thread should be revived. I'll post some of my trash in here as soon as I finish with the savage work spree that has me up to my nose in work now.
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Cano
Yeah I agree with you man. I was so rushed for time on the GT-R that I had to put something together that would hopefully get some votes. Luckily it was enough to get us through the round. With the CR-Z I didn't do too much work on it.
Here are our round 4 and 5 chops:
Porsche 911 Mainly done by the other member of my team:
Base image:
Round 5: Front mainly done by me (but very rushed)...
Base image: http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/2438/2010vauxhaulmeriva101.jpg
Rear by the other member of the team:
Base image: http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/3359/2010vauxhaulmeriva102.jpg
And heres a pretty recent chop by me. As you can see I went more for realism than the brushed artistic effect:
Base:
Chop:
Click the chops for a larger resolution image of them
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Yeah I agree with you man. I was so rushed for time on the GT-R that I had to put something together that would hopefully get some votes. Luckily it was enough to get us through the round. With the CR-Z I didn't do too much work on it.
Here are our round 4 and 5 chops:
Porsche 911 Mainly done by the other member of my team:
Base image:
Holly mother of god, really? I mean, I know you did not make all of this, but come ON, that is the level in a worldwide series? Heck, the porsche is absolutely PERFECTLY in good focus. The engine is like it was shot with a manual lens without adjusting. It also suffers badly of the "lots going on" syndrome. Awful.
Round 5: Front mainly done by me (but very rushed)...
Base image: http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/2438/2010vauxhaulmeriva101.jpg
Reflections on the Meriva look pretty decent, but it also has wayyy to much going on to look slightly real.
Rear by the other member of the team:
Base image: http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/3359/2010vauxhaulmeriva102.jpg
The rear is pretty decent., but the door is just too big at it's end, too as if the shot was taken with a wide angle lens, too in your face for the viewpoint from where we are looking at the car. It shouldn't come to be wider as it is closer to the viewer. It's a shame because the work in the scratch-made door is very good. And where is it's shadow? O_o
And heres a pretty recent chop by me. As you can see I went more for realism than the brushed artistic effect:
Base:
Chop:
Click the chops for a larger resolution image of them
Much better, much more to my liking and to what I always do. There are some details here and there, like the absolutely out of place cloud reflections on the rear window that dont look real at all, the absolotely off angle of the clocks in the A-pillar gauge pod, and the reflection in the upper part at the bottom of the wide front fender, which should be almost white but it's a color I don't see anywhere else in the car. Those are the obvious, the other that catch my eye and that can be absolute nitpickings but count as to make a car dont look chopped are the following, and I hope you take these as tips, not as critiques.
First, the rear diffuser looks good, but the carbon fiber wave should be at a different angle when the diffuser turns in different angles. It's not hard to do, you don't even have to make lots of layers, just select the area you want to change and distort it all in the same carbon fiber layer. The "division" caused by it being done in the same layer rather than in separate layers adds a bit of realism.
The reflection of the exhaust tip in the body should be more curved, play a bit with the spherize filter and something should come out of that.
And finally, a bit that really helps when you are working with a noisy picture like this. Look at how the rear wheel looks absolutely velvet-perfect and smooth, but everything else in the picture looks a bit noisy, including the front wheel. This makes stuff really pop, specially when viewed in a screen (in print, this sin't as much of a problem if it isn't done in a very large size). A quick solution is to play a bit with the noise filter, it will integrate your entire picture and it will be very difficult to point what has been put there and what not. Give the rear TE37 a little noise and watch it integrate to the rest of your picture almost magically. I'd do so to the front wide fender, as it also looks obviously brushed as it is so perfect and smooth compared with the rest of the picture.
Also, now that I see it, watch your focus. Your front rearview mirror is more out of focus than your front wheel even tough it is closer to us. Heck, your front wheel is focused and your front fender is not. That is absolutely not possible. also, take a bit of focus out of the front shutline of the door. It's more focused then that rear one, which, again, is not possible.
I really like this one, I just nit-picked all the details I saw here and there, but it is still a very good job, and pretty possible to make it look like it is a photo, and not a chop.
Keep on it bud (:
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let me know what your thoughts are, here are some cool chops on here 👍
neat, but watch the light on your wheels. the front one has the dim, neutral light that we see in the whole picture because it has been shot with diffusers (the front wheel hasn't but the hit of the flash isn't as hard so it's not really noticeable), but the rear wheel has been shot a strobe at a short distance and most likely in a dark ambience, instantly making it out of place. Look for a rear wheel that has not been illuminated by a flash and you'd be pretty much set.
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Cano, I see what you mean man. I actually noticed nearly all of those things you pointed out about the RX-7 when chopping the car. Particularly the blur and noise that it needs, but in the end I got a bit lazy and sort of forgot about most of it.
It sounds like you've been around the chopping industry for a while. I see that you're really into making a chop look 100% realistic which I agree with you. After all chopping is an "artform" and recently the chops are starting to look more "artistic" rather than "realistic". Examples of this are chops like this:
So artistic sort of chops like this one are becoming more the norm in the chopping world. The majority of people still go for the realism, but chops like this have probably had some influence on how I chop myself.
By the way I'm working on a new chop which should be out sometime soon. I'll be sure to post it up here... that's if GT5 doesn't take up all of my time when it comes out xD
It sounds like you've been around the chopping industry for a while. I see that you're really into making a chop look 100% realistic which I agree with you. After all chopping is an "artform" and recently the chops are starting to look more "artistic" rather than "realistic". Examples of this are chops like this:
So artistic sort of chops like this one are becoming more the norm in the chopping world. The majority of people still go for the realism, but chops like this have probably had some influence on how I chop myself.
By the way I'm working on a new chop which should be out sometime soon. I'll be sure to post it up here... that's if GT5 doesn't take up all of my time when it comes out xD
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Cano, I see what you mean man. I actually noticed nearly all of those things you pointed out about the RX-7 when chopping the car. Particularly the blur and noise that it needs, but in the end I got a bit lazy and sort of forgot about most of it.
It sounds like you've been around the chopping industry for a while. I see that you're really into making a chop look 100% realistic which I agree with you. After all chopping is an "artform" and recently the chops are starting to look more "artistic" rather than "realistic". Examples of this are chops like this:
So artistic sort of chops like this one are becoming more the norm in the chopping world. The majority of people still go for the realism, but chops like this have probably had some influence on how I chop myself.
By the way I'm working on a new chop which should be out sometime soon. I'll be sure to post it up here... that's if GT5 doesn't take up all of my time when it comes out xD
I've been practically living off that (and autophotography) for the past seven years or so. I work for a couple of car mags over here because, as far as I've seen here in Mexico, I'm the only one that can pull off seriously real looking stuff, and that's what the mags here want. One is a tuning mag, in which I let my modifier instincts loose, the other is a new car mag which always wasks me to do rumored cars, or turn spy cars into real stuff and that kinda stuff, which is always way more challenging than tuning a car.
From there comes my some times obsession of a car chop to look real, you can't have something like the Subaru (which, btw, is hideous, omg) you posted in a magazine, it looks like an illustration, not a photo. And if I want an Illustration, I'll simply make it from scratch, not from a photo... er, btw, I draw too, that is why I say that.
Post more stuff, It's always good to see this thread bumped. I haven't forgotten about putting my stuff in here, but I'm right in the middle of the work spree that always catches with me every end of the year. By mid december something should be here.
hi, I am brand new and thus new at photoshopping. My question is, how do you guys blend in, for example, a front clip. I have posted a pic of a mercedes of which I have put a different front clip on it and used the clone stamp tool to do a bit of it, but left lots untouched so I can be advised on the proper methods. Thank you
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hi, I am brand new and thus new at photoshopping. My question is, how do you guys blend in, for example, a front clip. I have posted a pic of a mercedes of which I have put a different front clip on it and used the clone stamp tool to do a bit of it, but left lots untouched so I can be advised on the proper methods. Thank you
Ah, now I see it. Well, first of all the alls, if you are gonna swap an entire front end, always aaalways find pictures that are exaclty at the same angle and have the same kind of light. For example, in this Merdeces picture the nose was shot in a studio and the car it was put in is out with trees reflecting off it. That alone is going to make it look way odd unless you can hand-produce reflections, which is, believe me, stupidly hard. There are several studio pictures of cars that have even, dim light without reflecting stuff, it's always good to go for those first. Also, try them to be the closest in color, as it will make it all a lot easier.
I'd also suggest that you use the pen tool to select your stuff, it is way more precise than the selection lasso tools.
When you select the parts you want to transplant, always select extra metal. For example, in this Mercedes you pasted an entire bumper, but behind the headlamp we dont see anything else... select that and then just erase stuff away with a big sized eraser with less opacity, and the two pieces will blend together well without having to actually create reflections.
now, some times if you transplant an entire piece some bits of it will come out a bit off, like, in this case, the headlamps. Simply select and copy/paste them again and arrange them in a natural form again with the distort tool, and your chop will gain lots.
In most cases an entire front clip will be really difficult to fit well, so your best bet may be to do it in pieces. headlamp, grille, bumper, second healamp, and then under all of those a layer of silver in which you can work to blend everything in.
As for blending stuff and making stuff disappear and all that, you can also try the finger tool... what was it called? smudge? bleh, the one that is a finger and "pulls" your layer, it can be very very useful.
and of course, put in wheels that are moving, haha
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May I just add to this in saying it's probably a good idea to work with images which are roughly the same resolution, as it's clear that the original Mercedes image is quite a small low-res picture (due to the pixelation around the wheel arches etc) and the SLK image is slightly better quality (see the sharpness of the rims as an example). I used to do this 'Digimodding' thing a lot, and whilst I wasn't great I did pick up a couple of helpful tips.
I always found this site very helpful in my early days, it basically provides step-by-step tutorials to achieve some of the things that you might want. Whilst they may not be the best methods to it, I'm sure it'll help get you off on the right foot. 👍
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lets see, furst of all, I think the colour is really fake looking. If you really can't pull of a color change that looks more or less real, I've always said leave it alone of think about other color. Also, on this: also un-select your black areas when you shift colours. In this one it is really apparent that your black holes were left inside of what changed colours, they look really really odd.
Having said that, the front end conversion seems a success for me because the angle is pretty much right. However if you nit pick details, the McLaren front end does not have the same relfections that the Ferrari has, I'm assuming the McLaren picture was taken on the outside and the Ferrari is, indeed, inside a facility.
The wheels. Front wheel is very very flat looking, it doesnt have volume... at least not as much as it should. find another set of wheels that is almost exactly the angle in which your car is and have a go.
also, I strongly suggest to check out the link and forums of the site Speedster recommended, there are plenty of good starter tips in there and the forums are chockfull of people that do some great stuff, who could also help a lot.
Having said that, the front end conversion seems a success for me because the angle is pretty much right. However if you nit pick details, the McLaren front end does not have the same relfections that the Ferrari has, I'm assuming the McLaren picture was taken on the outside and the Ferrari is, indeed, inside a facility.
The wheels. Front wheel is very very flat looking, it doesnt have volume... at least not as much as it should. find another set of wheels that is almost exactly the angle in which your car is and have a go.
also, I strongly suggest to check out the link and forums of the site Speedster recommended, there are plenty of good starter tips in there and the forums are chockfull of people that do some great stuff, who could also help a lot.
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I like making the Micro Cars:
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For months now I have been wondering why nobody in the world, especially in Dubai, has made a stripped out race-ready Veyron. Similar to the LM editions found in Gran Turismo, such a car would make the pin-up car of the decade. Is anyone here willing to photoshop a stripped-out, wildly aerodynamic and fully carbon-fibre panelled racing Veyron LM? It would be, without any doubt, epic.
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