Originally posted by Jpec07
Ok, I admit, I am a big walking contradiction. Filters are tools, nothing more, nothing less. When creating items from scratch, you can almost be expected to use these tools, however, when you are chopping a car, filters are generally not a good idea because they take away from the realness-aspect of the chop. I'm sorry for assuming that you're new to photoshop, as that's probably not the case (but I was able to see exactly what you did to the car in under a second each chop, and I'm not impressed by what I saw). Here's what I see that you did:
Chop 1: selected the body of the car nd changed the hue until it was that purplish blue color.
Chop 2: performed one of the thousands of identical "lightning" tutorials that you find on the internet, copied a part that was relatively vertical, pasted it over the car with a blending technique (screen, lighten, color dodge, or linear dodge, I think), got rid of the parts that didn't fit, colored the whole car red, and added the glowing text.
Please, if there is more that you did to it that I can't see, let me know (the order on chop 2 may be out of order, but that's the general idea).Why don't I like it? well, on closer examination of the first car, I found that you did more than just mess around with the hue (but I'm still not impressed). However, it lacks any improvement over the old car; it's still the same chevelle that it had been. And on the second one; lightning on a car is generally not a good idea (sometimes it's ok in the abstract competitions). I don't know the reason for this, but lightning doesn't make the car want to go faster. Also, with your lightning, part of it goes onto the hood and front of the car; while keeping ther same perspective. That's what bugs me the most. Hope your carreer goes well, and I hope your car-chopping carreer improves.
