Photoshop users - Photomerged GT5 Secquences

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Alright, here's an old idea that just came back to me while drifting the Ring in my almost stock cobra on comfort softs:

Create a photomerged secquence of your car going around a corner. Secquences are a common sight for years in Skateboard or Snowboard magazines* but are quite new in car magazines (I've seen one of a Lotus Evora in EVO magazine). I had a first quick go at it (no, these aren't two cars, its two shots of the same car merged together).

Ever since Photoshop CS2 (?) there is the function file/automate/photomerge, so there isn't that much work involved. Of course there is the camera selection problem (push the select button to hopefully find the same camera angle again), there might be tire smoke and jagged edges difficulties, but nothing is impossible for an avid Photoshop user.

So I'm interested to see what you might come up with – GT40 down the corkscrew? Miura around the Monaco hairpin? Over-the-crest jump secquences? Photomerge away.


photomerge.jpg


P.S.: Oh yeah, and people who don't have PSD and want to "find out how it works" ask your questions in photoshop forums, not here, please.

Edit: As proof the pics are really merged here a quick look at the two Photomode pics before the merge. Also added a couple examples for secquences.
cobra01i.jpg

cobra02.jpg

Action-Sequence-Photography.jpg

morgan-wade-sequence.jpg

drift_sequence.jpg

kickflip_sequence.jpg
 
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I don't have photoshop, or the slightest idea how to use it, but I have a suggestion still. See in the Porsche shot how all the "cars" except the present time one are ghosted? That looks a lot better to me than all of them being the same opacity, since it just looks like a one make race that way.
 
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my recent attempt. Photoshop's merge feature cut out every other car, so I had to do this by hand. I think there's a trick to making it do what i want the easy way, i'm just too tired to do it now. maybe later I'll do it again, with another car.
 
👍 Cheers!

I've been thinking about some technical details for my next try … I would like to have the tiremarks all the way through, that'll need some extra work. Plus, if I want to have some sort of ghost-car appearance (as suggested by Talon) I would need a camera view that's quite static, so i'd have all of the background material already there.

Can't get the Monaco (Côte d'Azur) hairpin out of my mind, guess I'll have a go this week. Something a bit like this vid here:
 
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