Photoshopped the ride

[mazdaspeedpower]

Hey, sup? This is my very first time ever even attempting the photshop program. Please give me an honest response on the look of my work. Also, if you have any tips on working my photoshop abilities, please post or PM me. Also, one question for a photoshop guy, how do I lower the car? If you want, you can use my pic, and show me what you can do with it.
Here's the before.

 

[mazdaspeedpower]

Aight, it's not letting me post it. PLease help!!!

 

[mazdaspeedpower]

How do I post a photoshopped image?

 

[bud_d]

is it a .psd? Use pshop to save as a .jpg

 

[mazdaspeedpower]

K, I'll try, thanx

 

[mazdaspeedpower]

Attemted After

Here, i Hope this works.

 

[mazdaspeedpower]

Thanks BUD-D

 

[TX Speed Demon]

It's pretty simple to lower your car.

1) douplicate the layer so you don't mess up the original
2) use the magnetic lasso tool and "draw" it around the edges of your car.
3) zoom in and hold the shift button down while you have either the lasso or rectangle (not shape tool if in PS7) to select any areas you missed.
4) if you accidentally selected your tires, use hold the option key down to de-select any content
5) Once you have the pieces of your car you want lowered selected use the arrow tool and move/nudge it down.

You may also want to select the background above your car too, otherwise when you move the car down it will create a whole in the image layer and you'll see the bottom layer through the whole making it look like you have 2 rooflines.

 

[mp3moose]

Ok maybe this is just me but I thought the first pic was chopped. It looks purple in that sunlight.

Nice work there on the photo. Give it more practice and it'll get easier=)

Moose

 

[mazdaspeedpower]

K, I'm gonna try it

 

[TX Speed Demon]

1) If you want cleaner lines when changing elements in a photoshop file use the selection tool to select only the areas you want to change. This way you won't get so many soft edges from your brush. Or go to your brushes pallet and change the hardness from 0% to 100%

2) If you want it to look real (ex: your "grey" headlights) use the cloning tool, not the brush tool. Cloning does a much better job of replicating differences in light and shadow, an effect you can't get with a flat color just airbrushed in.

 

[mazdaspeedpower]

K, could somebody show me an example of it lowered, cause I'm havin serious trouble here

 

[TX Speed Demon]

sorry man, using my fiance's computer. No Photoshop here

 

[mazdaspeedpower]

It says some s*** about the layer being locked

 

[TX Speed Demon]

That's because it's the background layer of the JPG. Duplicate the entire layer. Go to your layer's pallet, hit the arrow in the top right corner and select "duplicate layer"

or just do select all, copy, paste which will automatically creatre a new layer

 

[bud_d]

here's a rough lowered one

 

[mazdaspeedpower]

Another attempt. Slowly getting better

 

[mazdaspeedpower]

That's pretty good for rough

 

[bud_d]

thanks, I've been playing with photoshop to get a better grasp on it. Anyway back to my movies.

 

[mazdaspeedpower]

Yeah, aight, cool, thanks for the help