Photoshop a car

[deltashad]

After looking at the new 125i BMW I decided to 'shop it. I started by shortening its nose, then losing the rear door handles. Then made it into a coupe.
According to my colleague it now looks like a Ford Anglia.

Here it is ready for the stoning.

Please post any cars here which you have 'shopped.

[5hero]

oops!

[CBR JGWRR]

Paint?

[deltashad]

......and it's gone. BMW say there is no issue with owners cars disappearing?

[Pixel Pusher]

Not sure this is exactly what you meant, but on a thread on here earlier in the year,

I changed this.



into this.

[deltashad]

I don't know how to change colours. Still learning.. Most of the BM was done with MS Paint. Then finished with Gimp2 (free)

[ikarl]

the back end looks like an old tigra

[5hero]

a couple of mine:

[Pixel Pusher]

5hero said:

a couple of mine:

@ Nismo. I can appreciate the work gone into all of them.

I tinkered with a C5 to make it a coupe. Doesn't compare to yours though.

[pd2]

Very mild tweeks , but i tided up the BRZ Sti a while back.

[W00DY]

You had me looking through some of my old 'shops. From 2004 comes this beauty:

[toon10]

My old car


My old car when on undercover duties


Someone elses car (and picture)


Someone elses car (and picture) with the stripes removed!

[RPastry]

1/2 assed rear seat delete;

[shirt]

Pixel Pusher said:

@ Nismo. I can appreciate the work gone into all of them.

I tinkered with a C5 to make it a coupe. Doesn't compare to yours though.

i like that! although the way the rear window ends is reminiscent of the accrod coupe, which i hate!

how much work is involved here? i ask only as i need to have some designs mocked up for our BMW race car so we can have the car wrapped for the 24H barcelona. if it's not too involved to do a graphics scheme i can post some pics up. best design goes on the car. yay or nay?

[Pixel Pusher]

shirt said:

i like that! although the way the rear window ends is reminiscent of the accrod coupe, which i hate!

how much work is involved here? i ask only as i need to have some designs mocked up for our BMW race car so we can have the car wrapped for the 24H barcelona. if it's not too involved to do a graphics scheme i can post some pics up. best design goes on the car. yay or nay?

That was just 20 / 30 minutes tinkering.

Re your designs, yes let's see them. If I / we can help, why not?

Cheers.

[RZ1]

RPastry said:

1/2 assed rear seat delete;

I like that!

[shirt]

Pixel Pusher said:

shirt said:

i like that! although the way the rear window ends is reminiscent of the accrod coupe, which i hate!

how much work is involved here? i ask only as i need to have some designs mocked up for our BMW race car so we can have the car wrapped for the 24H barcelona. if it's not too involved to do a graphics scheme i can post some pics up. best design goes on the car. yay or nay?

That was just 20 / 30 minutes tinkering.

Re your designs, yes let's see them. If I / we can help, why not?

Cheers.

i'm taking the car to the docks tomorrow, i'll take some decent shots of each elevation and post them up.

[deltashad]

Turned an Alfa into an Audi A3 this time... Still cant do the colour change thing

Edited by deltashad on Friday 6th July 22:33

[deltashad]

5hero said:

a couple of mine:

Just starting to realise the amount of effort to put out these pictures. You are very, very good at this!!!

[5hero]

deltashad said:

Just starting to realise the amount of effort to put out these pictures. You are very, very good at this!!!

Thanks a lot, glad you like them You are doing well with your efforts, keep at it.

It does take a lot of practice. I've used photoshop for around 10 years now, mainly through my job. It also helps if you have a wacom, you got one? You can get the bamboo for about £50 from amazon. I couldn't use photoshop without one!

As for colour changes, I use the pen tool (with 'shape layers' selected) to trace the outline of the part(s) I want to colour. Not sure what the equivalent is in Gimp.

Here's a very quick example, around 30 seconds.



eta: here's a couple more of my older ones for fun







I used to be in the subaru club, incase you thought I was some kind of only-photoshop-subaru-impreza-fanatic

This is one of my favourites of one of my old cars, it took a long time!

Original photo:


Actually, this isn't the final edit, can't seem to find it right now.


Enough, back to the tunes and beer.

Enjoy tinkering deltashad and post up any questions, will try my best to help!

Edited by 5hero on Friday 6th July 22:56