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

I failed to get the image attached on the last post...maybe it will this time...was just wondering if someone could photoshop what my '39 Chevy sedan might look like with:

Candy apple red (or thereabouts) below the belt-line...a dark purple above the belt-line (including the top of hood) and some yellow flames on front and along sides of hood.

 

a public thankyou shout out to Paul[trashed&hammered]

 

Thanks James. That actually looks great. Now I just gotta figure out how much of a chop that was.

 

This may help...

 

Wow, that really wasn't much. Good to know. Thanks again.

 

Thats not Grabber orange you silly rabbit. Why would you ever think a guy would paint a Mustang that color

 

Oh wait, you said chop it?

 

Can someone help?!?! I am thinking my 58 (just like black one in pic) needs to be painted like Billy Gibbons tbird! Ditch the whitewalls, add chrome reverse wheels and usr the black and gold


-LUKEY-

 

Just picked this one up. Going to turn it into a feasable daily driver + Family cruiser.

Would like to see it lowered a bit with WWW's and a solid color... or two-tone.... hell, have fun with it!

 

I dig Studebakers, so here's what I came up with:
Lowered, nose down just a bit. Found some period chrome wheels.
They were on an Avanti, so they should fit if you can find 'em!

I cleaned up the doghouse by eliminating the wind wings.
And I chopped the top, too, but only an inch.

 

thanks guys! looks great.

 

Just had a bit of time to do the paint.

 

it's a Purple People Eater!

 

Ha! I feel like that's what it looks like already. Guess how it is now isn't that bad when you compare it to what you did. LOL. Thanks.

 

greenified


and something a little sea-foamy

 

thanks fellas! looks pretty good dropped down a bit. I also kind of like the two-tone look on it.

 

Anyone want to chop an old Opel Kapitän? Maybe some whitewall tyres and such?

 

something is wrong with my photoshop skills today

 

Another Opel - chopped, two doored, couped slightly and raised the front wheel arches so you can fit some proper sized wheels and get rid of the opel shirt buttons!

 

I don't know why, but this morning I decided to make a blue ute out of it.

 

Nice job, James!

Opel had some pretty cool, trans-atlantic styling in the fifties and sixties. In the USA, the Opel Kadette and later Manta and GT were "companion cars" to the Buick. That gave Buick dealers a smaller, grocery-getter to sell alongside the big cars.

Clare McKitchen who designed the 1958 Chevy, was posted to Opel later. He was responsible for much of their sixties styling.

 

My version: cleaned up the usual clutter, added white walls and the center toothy grille bar from the 1953 Opel.

 

I like it! The roof line is perfect for a ute.
Good eye!

 

Damn Seagulls!

 

Thanks.

Interesting, and it explains a great deal. Pity the proportions of these cars are so off usually - mutant high roof lines and narrow bodies. And that the coupe versions (if any exist) are usually too rare and valuable to chop up. I was photochopping a Vedette recently, and for a car that looks an awful lot like a 50 Merc, it´s a real challenge to make it look right.

Did a bit more - put the front wheels where they should be. No idea why they´re pushed back so far. To fit some existing platform I suppose.

 

GM designer Bill Mitchell once remarked,
"Designing a small car is like tailoring a dwarf."

Which is why so many American attempts to down-size cars in the seventies and eighties looked atrocious. They started with a big-car mentality and tried to shrink them down. Even when they started designing smaller cars from the ground up, it took awhile to understand the "Small is Beautiful" concept.

 

I agree. It´s like they took all the same big parts and just put them closer together.

 

if anyone is good at takin a pic and "candying" over a perticular part of it to include the designs and body contours that are already there toss me a PM if you want to do me a favor .. id rather not put this one up on a public cite (yes its a car LOL), but its sorta a secret of mine right now

thanks

 

I like that. Something about the front fender, roof, and tail light reminded me of 55-56 Chryslers, so I hope you don't mind that I did a version of your design with a small fin.

 

I like this alot! How about swapping grill, remove the flashers daylights emblems and doorhandles but keeping original paint?

James D, yours is really sweet too!

Thanks to both of you

EDIT: Just noticed that it was allready done, sweet!!