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Post Mon Feb 08, 2016 8:25 am

Re: Photo-editing your Automation car tutorial

Great tutorial, thanks!
For those who do not have PS, there are many online very PS-like programs that are capable enough for these things and some for basics like this even simpler. Google is our friend ;)
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Post Tue Feb 09, 2016 12:19 am

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AirJordan wrote:Great tutorial, thanks!
For those who do not have PS, there are many online very PS-like programs that are capable enough for these things and some for basics like this even simpler. Google is our friend ;)

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Post Tue Feb 09, 2016 12:22 am

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Do you mind reading the thread before you post? We just went over that two days ago!
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Post Thu Feb 11, 2016 5:48 pm

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people are voting for gimp. but im using paint .NET

somewhat functions similiarly to gimp, although i've never compared them. the wheel part is the pain in the ass part isn't it?
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Post Thu Feb 11, 2016 5:58 pm

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The wheel part is the pain in the ass part... if you're not editing the car or the background any further than that.

If you are, however, than the wheel part is probably the easiest part of the entire process. (Shameless plug because sheer amount of effort required to apply CF skin plus lacquer reflection effect). Aside from the difficulty of not always wanting to look directly at the car in your graphics which skews the perspective in off-center shots, the Automation models are very handy for providing a 3d reference with which you can do actually quite a lot of things, including painting new things entirely if you so wished.
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Post Sun Feb 14, 2016 5:35 am

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strop wrote:The wheel part is the pain in the ass part... if you're not editing the car or the background any further than that.

If you are, however, than the wheel part is probably the easiest part of the entire process. (Shameless plug because sheer amount of effort required to apply CF skin plus lacquer reflection effect). Aside from the difficulty of not always wanting to look directly at the car in your graphics which skews the perspective in off-center shots, the Automation models are very handy for providing a 3d reference with which you can do actually quite a lot of things, including painting new things entirely if you so wished.



holy cow O_O i've never seen that

if i no one mentioned that it was from in game and someone told me it was an actual irl concept car i would actually believe it.
it's THAT good O_O.

but then again. from someone that truly never edited an actual photo/image with photoshop. even the tools are confusing, even with paint .net or gimp some tools are just purely frustrating.

editing a wheel is a somewhat of a big jump/big challenge for a total newbie.
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Post Sun Feb 14, 2016 6:22 am

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koolkei wrote:editing a wheel is a somewhat of a big jump/big challenge for a total newbie.


Don't worry, just throw attempts at the wall, see what sticks. It's how I learned photoshops :)
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Post Sun Feb 14, 2016 10:50 am

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Another tip i would suggest is: If you want to place your car on a road or match the wheels, add transparency to the Automation Window via a Autohotkey script: http://poojanblog.com/blog/2008/08/autohotkey-transparency-script/

This way you can align your the car much easier:

Base image:
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Aligning the car in automation:
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Note: I've rotated the base image so the car is horizontally flat and i can align it better.

Result (after some additional adjustments):
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Post Sun Feb 14, 2016 11:16 am

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asdren wrote:Another tip i would suggest is: If you want to place your car on a road or match the wheels, add transparency to the Automation Window via a Autohotkey script: http://poojanblog.com/blog/2008/08/autohotkey-transparency-script/
This way you can align your the car much easier:


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Post Tue Feb 16, 2016 7:39 am

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squidhead wrote:
asdren wrote:Another tip i would suggest is: If you want to place your car on a road or match the wheels, add transparency to the Automation Window via a Autohotkey script: http://poojanblog.com/blog/2008/08/autohotkey-transparency-script/
This way you can align your the car much easier:


I love you man!

I just tried this and it works, IT WOOOORKS!
So happy! Thanks for sharing.
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Post Sat Feb 20, 2016 1:25 am

Re: Photo-editing your Automation car tutorial

Updated with Asdren technique and added a bit of my own.
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Post Wed Feb 24, 2016 11:31 am

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Anybody interested in in-depth tutorial on how to do this?

Click for huuuuge picture
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Post Wed Feb 24, 2016 12:07 pm

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I am a supernoob in photoshop. How do you edit the perspective of a layer?
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Post Wed Feb 24, 2016 12:15 pm

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select the layer, click ctrl+t on it, and then right click on it to chose the ways you wish to change the perspective. You're looking at either "perspective" or "skew" most likely
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Post Thu Feb 25, 2016 9:16 am

Re: Photo-editing your automation car tutorial. (Update: det

Updated with some detailing tutorial.

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