Custom [i]Motion[/i] Signatures Anyone?
- Thread starter chuyler1
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I have some good photos now of my car...I will send some so that it'll look good.
For everyone else who wants to try placing their images outside of the background using photoshop:
1) Copy your car onto a seperate layer (a given) before doing any resizing/cropping. Larger images work best and when masking off the car, make sure you don't select any pixels that don't belong to the car or the shadow.
2) Choose "Create layer from background" to make the background a layer
3) Delete some of the background around your car. The sections you deleted should show up as a gray/white checkered pattern if you did the previous steps correctly.
4) Resize the image to the size you want
5) Choose "Save for web"
6) Change the format to "gif", 256 colors, adaptive.
7) Make sure transpareny is checked
8) Click on the color box for "Matte" and enter "CCCCCC" for the color (asuming it is displayed in web-format). This will set any partially-transparent pixels to be non-transparent with a lt-gray background.
9) Click save.
1) Copy your car onto a seperate layer (a given) before doing any resizing/cropping. Larger images work best and when masking off the car, make sure you don't select any pixels that don't belong to the car or the shadow.
2) Choose "Create layer from background" to make the background a layer
3) Delete some of the background around your car. The sections you deleted should show up as a gray/white checkered pattern if you did the previous steps correctly.
4) Resize the image to the size you want
5) Choose "Save for web"
6) Change the format to "gif", 256 colors, adaptive.
7) Make sure transpareny is checked
8) Click on the color box for "Matte" and enter "CCCCCC" for the color (asuming it is displayed in web-format). This will set any partially-transparent pixels to be non-transparent with a lt-gray background.
9) Click save.
All the finishing touches (which is most of the sig) were done after I resized. I attached the motion copy of your file. Feel free to add what you want to it.
I ****** up and forgot to save the speedo picture before I resized it, but if you look closely, it says you're going 130
I ****** up and forgot to save the speedo picture before I resized it, but if you look closely, it says you're going 130
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yup.
1) I copy the car and put it on its own layer.
2) Then I blur the background using motion-blur (how much depends on the background and the size of the image).
3) I copy the section of the windows which shows the background, place it on its own layer. Select the layer transparency and do a motion blur.
3) Then I copy the the rims, place them on their own layer and do a radial blur on them.
4) Sometimes I then duplicate the rim layer and do a motion blur on it and slide it over a few pixels. Then set the opacity to 40-50%
5) Depending on the picture and how large the tires will be, I fuzz over the tread. The one above wasn't going to be noticable so I didn't do it.
6) Finishing touches for desktop backgrounds include more copy-to-new-layer/motion blur on different parts of the car that should show movement. I then set the opacity to less than 50%.
Also, depending on the shot, if the car is at an angle, I will do the background motion blur in triangle shaped slices to give the illusion of depth by creating a vanishing point. (hard to explain but it works great, see attachment)
1) I copy the car and put it on its own layer.
2) Then I blur the background using motion-blur (how much depends on the background and the size of the image).
3) I copy the section of the windows which shows the background, place it on its own layer. Select the layer transparency and do a motion blur.
3) Then I copy the the rims, place them on their own layer and do a radial blur on them.
4) Sometimes I then duplicate the rim layer and do a motion blur on it and slide it over a few pixels. Then set the opacity to 40-50%
5) Depending on the picture and how large the tires will be, I fuzz over the tread. The one above wasn't going to be noticable so I didn't do it.
6) Finishing touches for desktop backgrounds include more copy-to-new-layer/motion blur on different parts of the car that should show movement. I then set the opacity to less than 50%.
Also, depending on the shot, if the car is at an angle, I will do the background motion blur in triangle shaped slices to give the illusion of depth by creating a vanishing point. (hard to explain but it works great, see attachment)
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Cool, here the link.
http://www.benbailey.net/p5/p5-2.zip (2.43mb)
Has four 1024x768 pictures, hopefully one of them will work for you.
Thanks again.
http://www.benbailey.net/p5/p5-2.zip (2.43mb)
Has four 1024x768 pictures, hopefully one of them will work for you.
Thanks again.