Photoshop the Mazdaspeed3
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you can goto tirerack.com and choose a blue mazda3 and put the rims on there
I got some new pics of my car, so heres a repost of my request:
"Can anyone photoshop these with the rims being graphite colored, the headlights and tailights being smoked out (not completely black, but enough so its noticeable but can see the tail/headlights), tint the windows, and have the badges colored black? I am thinking of doing all of the above. Also, can you have two sets of photos, one with the side door moldings with all the above and one without the door moldings with all the above?
Thanks a ton. Here are the pics:"
"Can anyone photoshop these with the rims being graphite colored, the headlights and tailights being smoked out (not completely black, but enough so its noticeable but can see the tail/headlights), tint the windows, and have the badges colored black? I am thinking of doing all of the above. Also, can you have two sets of photos, one with the side door moldings with all the above and one without the door moldings with all the above?
Thanks a ton. Here are the pics:"
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- 2009 Escape XLT, 2010 CX7 sport
now have somone take off that side marker light
Dude! That's a tall order and a lot of work!then00b said:
Think about it: 4 original pics (your choice, not theirs,) 5 requests and multiply that by a factor of 2 (w & w/o side molding?) Even if several things could be combined into one picture, you're talking about 20+ pictures.
That's why no one has honored your request. A professional ( I have one in the family) would charge you at least $200-300.00 for all that... Minimum!
I was going to try and tackle it myself until I really read what you were requesting and started to add it up.
BTW: Smoking headlights and taillights may be hazardous to your health... if you can get them lit, that is. (boom07)
Take it from someone who was dumb enough to try just exactly what you are proposing at one point in his life. YA' CAN'T SEE, Dude! And worse, no one will see you either.
Unless you have a daily driver and this is your "show" car, don't do it. It may look cool, but it's dangerous as hell... even more so today than when I tried it years ago.
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Hey Chico! Buy "my" 3 for 30G and I'll even throw in the stubby antenna... free of charge!CHICO2003 said:
BTW: I don't use PhotoShop. I have two different versions of it but find it to be very cumbersome and I can't get it to do what I want. I use a much older version of Adobe called PhotoDeluxe, though I too wish I could get the results that Mr.B does. (thumb)
Am I disqualified now?
"Then" Already!
If I were charging you the standard rate of $15/hr, plus supplies for good quality prints (these are web quality. Print QC= more time/more money) each one would cost you at least $40.00 ea... $80.00 for the pair. See how it adds up?
I took it upon myself to give you a "shorty" antenna and the red calipers and center caps, but that only took about a half hour. (I got carried away.
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I also tried to fix some other anomolies in the original picture, but certainly not all of them.
If you right-click and save them to your desktop, then open both in Explorer you can get the full size pictures. Plus, if you put the two "windows" on top of one another you can click back and forth to get a quick view of what the car would look like w & w/o molding. Sort of an A-B comparison.
Also, I'd say that w/the overlay that I did on your windows (tint) is roughly equivalent to a 35% pass tint. (Legal, in all states, I believe.)
No applause necessary, just throw MONEY! (bowdown)
W/Siding molding
W/O Side molding. W/graphics.
BTW: I like the chrome door handles, but you might want to stick with that "chrome" theme, or change it out all together. Mirror caps, fuel door, etc...
OK. So call me a poor, dumb Schmuck for spending the last three hours working on these two copies of the same picture. (yawn) But that should give you some idea of the time and effort it takes to do this... AND of just what it is that you are asking people to do for you. It ain't magic, Dude... It's work!then00b said:
If I were charging you the standard rate of $15/hr, plus supplies for good quality prints (these are web quality. Print QC= more time/more money) each one would cost you at least $40.00 ea... $80.00 for the pair. See how it adds up?
I took it upon myself to give you a "shorty" antenna and the red calipers and center caps, but that only took about a half hour. (I got carried away.
)I also tried to fix some other anomolies in the original picture, but certainly not all of them.
If you right-click and save them to your desktop, then open both in Explorer you can get the full size pictures. Plus, if you put the two "windows" on top of one another you can click back and forth to get a quick view of what the car would look like w & w/o molding. Sort of an A-B comparison.
Also, I'd say that w/the overlay that I did on your windows (tint) is roughly equivalent to a 35% pass tint. (Legal, in all states, I believe.)
No applause necessary, just throw MONEY! (bowdown)
W/Siding molding
W/O Side molding. W/graphics.
BTW: I like the chrome door handles, but you might want to stick with that "chrome" theme, or change it out all together. Mirror caps, fuel door, etc...
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I am thinking of either painting the door handles the color of the rims or just taking off the covers altogether if I go with the graphite look, which is my choice as of now.
As for the chrome route, I dont want to spend $1000 on chrome rims for this car so that's out of the question.
I was actually trying to get a look of everything all together so I could see what it all looks like together in unison. I was also looking to get rid of that 2.3 badge if I took off the moldings but thanks for the effort anyway.
Are you sure that tint would be equivalent to a 35% tint job? The tint is so subtle in the pictures I didnt even notice it...
As for the chrome route, I dont want to spend $1000 on chrome rims for this car so that's out of the question.
I was actually trying to get a look of everything all together so I could see what it all looks like together in unison. I was also looking to get rid of that 2.3 badge if I took off the moldings but thanks for the effort anyway.
Are you sure that tint would be equivalent to a 35% tint job? The tint is so subtle in the pictures I didnt even notice it...
Originally Posted by then00b
1. "Can anyone photoshop these with the rims being graphite colored,
2. the headlights and tailights being smoked out (not completely black, but enough so its noticeable but can see the tail/headlights),
3. tint the windows,
4. and have the badges colored black? I am thinking of doing all of the above.
5. Also, can you have two sets of photos, one with the side door moldings with all the above and one without the door moldings with all the above?
Thanks a ton. Here are the pics:
$200-300 for a photoshop job? You have to be kidding me. That is absolutely rediculous...
As for the smoking head and taillights, Rockblocker has confirmed that the lights work fine through the film and I have seen pictures of people with it on at night and it looks fine to me, so I am still going to go that route.
I really dont see how this could be hard at all for an avid photoshop user, let alone a "professional." I would attempt if I owned the program and knew how to use it but I dont. It appears to me for the moldings you would just take the color of the body and smear it over the moldings to cover them up? As for the rims, I have seen tons of photoshop jobs with different rims and no one mentions that they take a long time. The smoking headlights and taillights dont seem to be that hard either to a good PS user since dont you just adjust a layer of gray or some close color to what your looking for? I also think there is a tint option in PS so you could use that.
I figured a nice someone with a little extra time would be able to try and attempt (key word) this without asking for a donation.
So thank you for your time in doing it.
1. "Can anyone photoshop these with the rims being graphite colored,
2. the headlights and tailights being smoked out (not completely black, but enough so its noticeable but can see the tail/headlights),
3. tint the windows,
4. and have the badges colored black? I am thinking of doing all of the above.
5. Also, can you have two sets of photos, one with the side door moldings with all the above and one without the door moldings with all the above?
Thanks a ton. Here are the pics:
bbrich57 said:
$200-300 for a photoshop job? You have to be kidding me. That is absolutely rediculous...
As for the smoking head and taillights, Rockblocker has confirmed that the lights work fine through the film and I have seen pictures of people with it on at night and it looks fine to me, so I am still going to go that route.
I really dont see how this could be hard at all for an avid photoshop user, let alone a "professional." I would attempt if I owned the program and knew how to use it but I dont. It appears to me for the moldings you would just take the color of the body and smear it over the moldings to cover them up? As for the rims, I have seen tons of photoshop jobs with different rims and no one mentions that they take a long time. The smoking headlights and taillights dont seem to be that hard either to a good PS user since dont you just adjust a layer of gray or some close color to what your looking for? I also think there is a tint option in PS so you could use that.
I figured a nice someone with a little extra time would be able to try and attempt (key word) this without asking for a donation.
So thank you for your time in doing it.
