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SkylineGoes
I think the night picture is great! Not crappy at all.
Then it's just this laptop screen that's messed up. Although it does also bother me that there's way more light on the left side. But that "light" filter is SO hard to use. If this photo shows up well on your screen, you should make it fullscreen (no white edges or something) in a dark room. You WILL get sucked in :) :)



Currently cooking something for the photoshop comp...
 
I'm trying to get the same style of pic you got, I did the "tunnel" effect, but I can't seem to get the lightining right, I use the...lighting filter, I don't know how to translate it...it's just before the sharpening filters.
 
Here's what I came out with, you can see I tried the lightning filter but without much results.



The sky was always too bright, I could not make it a night effect, damn.
 
Melaneimoon
I just noticed something in the LeMans shots that shows the blurring was done afterwards (even though it's obvious anyway because it's impossible in GT4). The wheels of the pescarolo aren't blurred ^^. That wouldn't make sence. I guess I *could* perfectly fix that, but... maybe later...


It would make perfect sense. The cars are moving along at the same speed (roughly). So only the scenery that is flying past would get blurred. Awesome pic 👍
 
DQuaN
It would make perfect sense. The cars are moving along at the same speed (roughly). So only the scenery that is flying past would get blurred. Awesome pic 👍
Not quite. I'm talking about the rotation of the wheel. A blurred scenery means a low shutter speed, so anything that doesn't move along with the view of the camera gets blurred. The wheel is rotating very fast, this movement should be recorded with the low shutter speed. The upper part of the wheel for example, moves parrallel to the camera, but has to go twice as fast as the cars, right?
Div is back
I have finally suceeded, I created a "tunnel" sunset pic.
Um... The sky wouldn't be so blurred, you know. It's much further away. So is the road in the distance, ofcourse. The closer a still obcject, the stronger the blur. The radial blur filter of PSP9 has a "protect centre", you should put it on maximum.
Are you using PSP?

I worked with a lot of layers.
Basically 1 for the cars, 1 for the blurred/lighted scenery, and 1 for the sky. The light filter on the scenery does most of the work (it also makes the surroundings dark). So pretty much all I had to do then was more or less equally darken the other layers, and make another light filter onto the cars to show the light reflected onto them, you know. If you're using PSP9 I can ofcourse tell you more precicely what I did.


I've updated the gallery (at the bottom) with my entry for the photoshop comp.


Oh yes... I found my arm in a rather odd situation (angle and light) for a photo.
I think the result's pretty cool:

 
Is that picture of the Auto Union also made with the Paint Shop Pro? If it is, I will start practising...
 
Are you using paint shop pro for the night pics? I couldn't get it anywhere, nobody i know has it and i don't want to buy it. Have you seen my attempt at a night pic? It isn't very good because I have to live with Ulead Photo Express. Not a very good program for making car pics.( I can't get rid of the green haze in the left light.)
Great pics.:)
 
And the road isn't blurred because i thought i could do it on the program, but you can only do motion blur in a certain direction, not coming out from the middle.
 
I've updated ^^

How did you do the night pic?
Paint Shop Pro 9.
Basically:
A layer for the cars, a layer for the street and trees, and a layer for the sky. The layer with the scene got a radial blur, and the "illumination effect" (or something). It's a pain in the butt to use, but you can see the result. Use another illumination effect on the car layer, to make the light appear somewhat realistic. And darken the sky layer.
It's probably very tricky indeed to do it with a program less good. (I got mine for free though, a "present" ;) )

Is that picture of the Auto Union also made with the Paint Shop Pro? If it is, I will start practising...
Well then, I assume you started :P
That particular old photo effect is more or less like this:
Duplicate layer. Make the upper layer b/w, alter it's contrast and brightness a bit. Ad some noise, give it a tiny blur, then I used the old newspaper effect or something (but a sepia tone or colorize would do too (then you'd want to go for orange/yellow with a very low saturation)). Do a bit more brightness/contrast to make it lighter. Finally experiment with the opacity of the upper layer, and the saturation of the lower layer to see how old you wanna make it.



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Thanks for the PSP tips, I'll be using them. It's sad to see you go, but you can't get everything. Have a good time! :cheers:
 
Perfect Balance, what if there's a bad song all of a sudden? You can't race with bad music.
kennythebomb
Nice shots Mike. I like to see original shots. Too bad on the close-ups you didn't smooth out jagged edges.
Yeah well hey, they're not entries. As long as the shot is good, I'm not gonna spend so much time on them. Perhaps you wanna say "too bad GT4 has such jagged edges". Nothing stops YOU from doing it (with my photos) though :sly: :P
 
Good to see you around after a while. I used your PSP trick to good effect, visit my gallery to see it and many other pictures :cheers:
 

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