Art & Inspiration The Photoshop thread to end all Photoshop Threads!

Alright, so first off thanks to all who have helped in the past with the whole photoshop thing. It has made my decision about the direction of my build a lot easier. I think I have a vision for where I want to take my 36' now. It will be full fendered truck and I will be sectioning the cab, hood sides, and grill by 5-6". The last photoshop I had done is close. My request this time is for a paint scheme. I am thinking gray on the cab and bed. With black scallops on the top of the hood with a maroon (burgandy) outline. As well as black fenders and running boards (possibly with making the body line on the fenders maroon) and maroon smoothies. Thanks in advance, you guys are awesome!

Oh also I don't think this guy sectioned his grill, so the hood has a uphill slant. It would be great to see it have a nice rake to it.

The Ford is an example for scallops. You could make them a little longer if you want.

 

Maybe not a great pic, but I think I might go dark blue before I sell it. Any chance of seeing it in blue

 

Did kinda fast but I hope it helps

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l207/onebadmutt/2720T2011.jpg

 

thanks James! You might see that beast rolling down Highway 49 in the near future!

 

My 1939 Hudson 112 Coupe is still a work in progress. The reality of paint is approaching. This picture is from years ago when it was first parked in the back yard. I picture Light Blue Swede, but am open to ideas? Could somebody work some magic?

 

Here ya go. Removing flames is a pain in the backside. lol

 

Sure is. Id like to make a feature of the woodwork, and have cleaned it up. I deleted that pic, and i'll get a side on pic.

 

Thank you for the paint job. I was wondering if anyone can work thier magic on the wheels with some different ideas. I was thinking painted steelies green like the roof with a center cap or something I dont know.
I would also like to see what she would look like with some body mods.
If your bored and want to play around with it I'd appreciate it. Thank You
in advance....

 

man, you are talented thats just crazy to know that you can do all that! is there by any chance a color you can do it like close to silver but with a hint of brown, could you do a shot with the billet wheels just to see what they look like, i thought about also doing the billet wheel on it and leaving the hoop polished and painting the centers cream.. just a thought maybe if its not to hard i would like to see that! that way i can rule that out if it looks goofy.. i really appreciate you taking your time to help me out.. thanks

 

I gotta take my hat off to the effort James D and more recently Btrsweet have put in to these photoshops. Sure would like to see a tutorial on what methods you are using, I struggle with the patience to select things.
Maybe you have easier methods of doing things.

 

I just have to say BEST thread anywhere... and many thanks to those doing the photowork. Amazing!

 

Seems I´d have to get up a lot earlier to beat Btrsweet to this thread of a morning!

Selection? Just point and click with the lasso tool. You don´t have to be as accurate as you might think. You can go all the way round a car body in about half a minute. Don´t even think of using the magic wand tool.
Anything else you want to know, just shout.

 

One thing I notice about your work is you have sharper lines and finer details. Like when drawing scalops. your paint overs look great what is your method for colouring? and lastly I noticed youve started adding reflections lately, how do you do that?

 

Post http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6743857&postcount=7044 is a great example, you totally painted over it, yet managed to keep all the details.

 

Here's a one for ya. Make the large man in the grey shirt disappear.

 

The thin lines are done with the path (pen?) tool. Pull it to shape and then stroke the path using a very fine airbrush tool (like 1 or 3 point). If you put it on another layer then you can fade it out til it looks right.

Scallops I tend to use Adobe Illustrator and again add it on another layer and fade it out.

Reflections? Copy a bit of the ground, and stick it on the car.

Colouring and shine is just about observation. Look at some photos of shiney, perfect cars and just try and copy them. In fact, most of this is about observation and seeing what looks right.

 

Easy. I told him if he'd go into the bar next door, I'd buy him a beer!

 

Do you use a tablet or a mouse? I thought drawing a path shape in photoshop and rasterizing it, is the same as drawing in illustrator, then saving it as jpg, it rasterizes it on export.

 

Those are WEEZNER backgrounds no?

 

mrjynx, those renderings are awesome!!

 

LOL! Great job, thanks!

 

I know OT and strange...

 

ha ha

 

I actually kinda like that.

 

Not mine, I only quoted for stealing weezners works.

Google keith weezner

this is an original, looks like he cloned the original cars out and put those in.





And then put his own name on them.

 

Nice! looks like a Pininfarina prototype for Renault.
I want to hop in and go to Monte Carlo!