i dont know if there is a thread for this somewhere else, but i just wanted to get advice on photochoping and editing 4th gen maxima pictures. also, if you have done some of this, post your pictures here. mine are WAY ghetto, i was just screwin around, being bored at work. give me advice on how to actually do this if you know.

here they are:

heres one with a ghetto body kit

 

are you using Microsoft Paint?

 

If you just dropped your car in MS Paint I give you made props kid...

 

lol no i was using a program called photo impression 4.
by the way, im not a KID, im the same age as you sunten1

 

photoshop is cool, or you could just lower and get a kit?

 

i think he meant it as slang, not to label you.

while you're at it kiddo, learn to resize the images cause i cant see a dam thing other than a door at a time

 

find a copy of photoshop...and use the pattern tool, magic wand tool, and magnetic lasso tool. When you said ghetto body kit, I figured you at LEAST copy and pasted it, lol.

 

LOL i know im not sayin there anygood, thannks for the advice thou. its fun to do this.

 

get a copy of photoshop and NEVER use any of those tools. they're practically useless for photoshopping cars. the clone stamp and the polygonal lasso are your friends!

 

clone stamp works good for textured areas like pavement, so I guess you are right. Magnetic lasso is good for cutting exact lines from depicting color difference. I guess it's all just preference anyway.

Here, I did this in about 15 minutes: bbk, rims

 

even paint would be better than those awful pics. yes, please learn and use photoshop.

 

Some stuff done by my friend:

Kit + rims


Car was parked.


Lined out

 

wow you need to brush up on your skills young grasshopper. post up the orginials and ill take a wack at it this weekend.

 

heres some of my sketching around:

 

Do any of you guys go to Maddox's site (best site in the universe)?

I think he would have something witty to say about these masterpieces.

-No offense Frodo, I used to slam my ISH on MS paint all day long.

I'll dig up one I have with IS300 wheels....

 

Photobucket screwed this up it looked good, you get the idea.

And the dream circles....

 

somse ill ****

 

good eye + zoom + polygonal lasso (or freehand lasso if you have a nice optical mouse) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> magnetic lasso


quick mask mode + paintbrush >>>>>>>>>>>>>> magnetic lasso


hell,

MAGIC WAND >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> magnetic lasso


spend some time using those first two methods and you'll see how imprecise and useless the magnetic lasso is.

 

cool, I'll hafta try it out sometime.

 

I like the 2 toned body kit...

 

im gonna try to do it better today with photoshop.

 

heres some stuff ive done myself...not my best,but k i guess -still learning it.
Well, u guys can be the judge of that. I used Photoshop CS2.


[saw this car on the org somewhere-was bored]


[This one was done for SMX95]


[not a max but a lil something]


[one of my earliest creationz....from my more noobish days]

 

Here's some I've done:








Now that I look at these I'm really embarassed. They look so fake.

 

^^^ those are pretty good man...the rx8 would look so much nicer if it didn't have those rear doors like you photoshoped

any one want to do something to one of my pictures that are in the link in my profile???

 

http://photoshopchop.com/ for all your photoCHOPPING needs.

 

heres my new one....not too great but a little better on the rims and tint. im still really a beginner thou

 

you do realise the carbon hood is reflecting a ceiling? looks like the ceiling of a garage ( the red beam looks like the lift)?

 

yea i know...lol...i still consider myslef a noob....working on skillz lil by lil

 

yea good stuff, and the hood clips are obvious cut and pastes. I should dig up some of my work and post it..... I havent chopped in a while but I think I can come up with some garbage.

 

a Z I did a while back:

 

My old computer broke so all my old stuff is either lost or in my freinds computer.... well I was bored so I did this one right now.

 

i envy you ...nice

 

i really need to learn how to do this better. even thou the pic in my sig isnt that bad. all i did was the rims and the drop, and the tint thou.

 

I think this looks really good. What Photoshop tools and techniques did you use to get the two tone thing to look so good? I'm very curious.

 

select the area you want to recolor, then image > adjustments > desaturate.

then, image > adjustments > hue/saturation. adjust until it looks right, or if you can't get it you can use image > adjustments > brightness/contrast in addition.


i agree, that orange max photoshop does look really good.

 

Interesting, I thought he had just overlaid the black on the orange, but I suppose that works too. I think keeping things simple works best.

 

Some of you guys have some awsome skills even if some of them are newbs. I have photoshop seven and I still don't know how to use it.

 

lol i have photoshop CS 2 now and i still cant do it that good. im learnin thou. its fun.

 

it sure is. I think im going to get back into ps, heres another one I just came up with.

 

umm..idk know bout this one...its seems a bit too rushed and sloppy..nice concept behind it though..just clean it up a bit and ur good...

actually i just selected the area as southeast_first said and i didnt desaturate it...rather i skipped ahead and i went to hue and saturation and just lowered the brightness and adjusted the saturation and hue...for myself it works out better that way..its seems to look a bit better..to me atleast....and that design was random...just went with wherever i felt like clicking..lol