WRS Photo Album

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I searched and searched, but all of the 15+ 300ZXs I've looked at were Arctic Pearl White. I liked it - a nice contrast to the Supra, whose color is simply called "Black"... But red is nicer.
Gonna post some stuff as soon as I find my stick...
 
Well here is my Buick on the edge of traction while cornering...



...that's some nice suspension :sly:
 
Mmm... I'll post some pictures as soon as I find my USB. I've got a 300ZX two-by-two with Escudo rims, a 300ZX 2seater with old 40-spoke Jaguars (probably from the E-type), and a Supra with weird Nissan deep-dish rims in a purple-bronze color... Gotta find the stick soon...
 
Gingiba
That's some heavy editing there
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Just changed the Levels :lol: All GT4 pictures come out amazingly dark.

... What rims are those?
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I have no idea. But they're pretty sick uber hardcore to da max.
Here's a better picture of them....


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Ah, those kind of wheels... I prefer 6 or less spokes.. If possible, then thick ones.
The changing of the levels is a little too much, isn't it? Makes it look washed out a little. Try adjusting contrast and brightness before, as well as Saturation. Should help a bit.
 
I love those wheels Brad! I use them on a lot of cars... It's a shame they come out purple sometimes though. They're obviously racing center lock wheels, but the manufacturer escapes me... Are they the C5-R wheels? Not sure.
 
Gingiba
Ah, those kind of wheels... I prefer 6 or less spokes.. If possible, then thick ones.
The changing of the levels is a little too much, isn't it? Makes it look washed out a little. Try adjusting contrast and brightness before, as well as Saturation. Should help a bit.
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nah... levels and curves are much better than using brightness and contrast. B&C edits are merely for fine tuning and effects.
However, photoshop isn't magic... You have to follow the golden rule of any editing software, you're product is only as good as its source.
If you get an image into photoshop and hit levels, the white ballance histogram it shows you shouldn't be a flat line except for a mass at the left edge. That means you should bump up the EV in GT before snapping the shot. Even if it looks over bright and washed out on the TV, its not going to look that way on the PC. All of the brightness, contrast, sharpness, and saturation filtering on your TV does NOT get applied to the image... you get it raw. Which is why at EV of 0, it will look tight on the TV but dark and greyed out on the PC.
I generally have to ramp the EV up to +4 on night tracks and +3 for daylight. Then I get a historgam that i can play with to get the desired color ballance and light levels. If you don't do that, you get an underexposed shot. And playing with the levels will just move the white point so low that black becomes grey, and everything is washed out.
 
This I know, the EV-bumpup. I always do that, and noticed it really does improve. However, what I meant was that even after bumping up the EV, fiddeling with the brightness and constrast helps for some extra quality.

However, I noticed, that fiddling with the levels too much will over-washout the picture, or give it distorted colors..
 
Well I use paintshop Pro for photo editing, and always have, as I don't like Photoshop, it's too fiddly. So I don't really have the software knowledge to comment on that program.

Paintshop Pro is great, and the one-click auto-adjust functionworks very well with fantastic results when working with GT4 screen shots. But as previously stated +3 or +4 on the exposure (especially when using higher F-stops) is a must.

Neil
 
I use each one for it's best uses. As an example, I find Photoshop has more and easier-to-select options. The Polygonal Lasso tool is also highly useful for GT4-photoshopping. However, Paintshop Pro makes the process easier, and has MUCH better blur-tools - the Radial Blur, as an example, ends up much smoother, preserves more color, and has that option to make a spinning blur. However, I find that the selection-tools are pretty basic in PSP(7), and that the use of layers isn't fluid enough. I also don't like the results that "One-step Photo-fix" gives on GT4-shots. This tool is calibrated for real photography, and actually gives good results there. But on GT4, it makes the pictures look washed-out, and makes edges very.. umm... edgy. Try to take a fast-shutter shot in GT4 that includes trees (Trial Mountain would do), and apply the OSPF. I did it today, and the results weren't very nice.

Plus, for deleting the GT4 signature, nothing works as good the Photoshop tool "Patching". Simply select the area you want to delete (with the signature), look for a similar spot, and voila, a clean "real" photo...
 
Did you already check the new Gallery feature of GT Planet ?
I just finished to upload all pics that I've been using to illustrate the WRS races I've posted, and I added a link to my photo album in my sig.

If you want to take a look at the most underestimated part of the WRS steward's job, I suggest you start by this pic. ;)
 
Nice feature... A bit hard to understand at first, though. As soon as I edit those friggin' signatures, I'll create my own gallery...

And nice photoshopping there. Do you have a higher-resolution picture? Kinda smallish, you can't see details very well...
 
Flat-out
Did you already check the new Gallery feature of GT Planet ?
I just finished to upload all pics that I've been using to illustrate the WRS races I've posted, and I added a link to my photo album in my sig.

If you want to take a look at the most underestimated part of the WRS steward's job, I suggest you start by this pic. ;)
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please dont ever think we underestimate the heaps of work you move for us my steward. i also think wrs guys understand doing the pics is a lot of work too. tho i appreciate them a lot, cutting back time in wrs could be done by reducing the time you invest in creating beautiful shots.

a question. now that jordan has brought us the gallery stuff in gtp, what needs to change in the wrs picture department? i guess he would want doublures to be minimized, and the functionality over there is best anyway. maybe we could upload to the gallery and just make links to it from this thread.
 
Bigracer
please dont ever think we underestimate the heaps of work you move for us my steward. i also think wrs guys understand doing the pics is a lot of work too. tho i appreciate them a lot, cutting back time in wrs could be done by reducing the time you invest in creating beautiful shots.

a question. now that jordan has brought us the gallery stuff in gtp, what needs to change in the wrs picture department? i guess he would want doublures to be minimized, and the functionality over there is best anyway. maybe we could upload to the gallery and just make links to it from this thread.
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I agree, simply linking to an album featuring WRS Shots would be enough.

Here's one for Week 68, and one for Week 70
 
Agreed for the links as Metar posted above.
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We could even post the links in the results thread.
 
Yeah, that was me.
I like week 38 pics a lot too, but I can't rate my own pics. :(
 
great pics tim! i wonder if you could disclose how you get your gt4 photos into such a great format.
 
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