PSC Weekly #147 -- CLOSED

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Welcome to the Photoshop Chopping competition.

#147

The Victim:​

2007 Toyota Camry XLE

Toyota-Camry_XLE_2007_1024x768_wallpaper_07.jpg


Image credits: netcarshow.com

The rules:​

All chops must be posted at 1024x768 or smaller with a tumbnail for the poll.

Deadline: 21st July

Happy chopping!
 
ACK.

Dude, wtf.

Ok. It's been a while since I last did an econocrapbox. I'll see if I can drag someone over here.

EDIT: Found what I'm gonna do with it.
 
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I may give this a go, I haven't done a chop in ages but I'm ridiculously bored.
 
I decided to try this for "teh lulz" and create a Camry that looked like it was the result of some awful "bling" modifications in Midnight Club. Yes, I know it's completely and utterly rubbish, but it is my first chop.

 
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I decided to try this for "teh lulz" and create a Camry that looked like it was the result of some awful "bling" modifications in Midnight Club. Yes, I know it's completely and utterly rubbish, but it is my first chop.

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Nah, it could be way worse, belive me. For starters, the light on your wheels and thre light in your car more or less cooincide, so that is a great start, I cannot remember how ma ny chops I've seen in where the wheels have a strobe popped at them and the car is in full shadow.

The only tip I'd give out is that you look for other grille mesh that also has more or less the same light conditions as your car, and that you copy and paste some tire thread under the fenders to cover where the stocvk height was. 5 minutes in all. Aside from that, it's not bad.

EDIT: I just noticed that, for lowering the car, you selected part of the picture, it shows right in front of theheadlamp; another tip: select the underbody of the car complete with the entire picture. that way there won't be cut stuff in the photo and it will all look real.
 
double post, but doesn't matter, here it is, after two hours fo work.

FINAL ENTRY



Mods:

-Mercedes Roof with LOTS of modifications
-Volvo wheels
-Volvo headlamp, modified
-handmade nose with Lincoln crest
-random handmade bits to make it all fit

All I wanted was to make it ANOTHER CAR COMPLETELY, because this thing is incredibly ugly. The result is ugly too, but it's enough of a favor for the Camry.
 
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WOW 👍 Most impressed.

I've not done much of this kind of thing but figured I'd put something out just for kicks. Don't know how to post a thumbnail from flicker but this is close.


Toyota-Camry_XLE_2007_1024x768_wallpaper_07 by arora120, on Flickr

Did a few small things; lowered, resized rims, stretched, got rid of body seams, took out the front light, increased the skirting,some other stuff as well.

I'm not too good at it but it's fun and I'm learning gimp as I go btw.
 
As I say, I haven't done one of these in ages. I feel may have been ambitious, and slightly rubbish though. As you can probably tell, a lot of work has been done to the car. I went for a one make series race car kind of feel.



Feel free to C&C it!
 
ok people, here we go:

Arora: Your work is clean and simple, too simple perhaps. A change of wheels would do wonders to it. It looks like a lwb Camry.

Speedster: I like your nose! The car in general looks coherent, it looks like it has an all-fiberglass body. your problems are easy to adress: the front opening, just copy/paste the original mouth opening and make it bigger, so it wont just look like you put a black layer there, and it actually has borders. 'Sides, you're gonna fill it with mesh anyway.

For the nose openings and the headlamp covers, as these are custom made pieces, I don't know how you traced them, I'd suspect it was with the lasso pen tool. However, they look too sharp. Just give them a blur filter and see them magically integrate with your car. The side air intake is the most ambitious part, complicated to achieve.

And it could use some rivvets in the rear side window, and some reflections or carbon fiber texture, as could the headlamp covers.

SVX: I assume you did your selection with the lasso tool, right? If you want clean circular selections use the pen tool that makes vector tracing, the circles are pefect and it won't have those "razor" edges in the selection. Also, your wheels are off. Select your wheels layer then go to edit/transform/distort, and fix them to fit the perspective of your tires.
 
Thanks Cano, I might mess with it some more but more likely I'll try a lot more stuff with the next weeks car. I might get hooked on this stuff :scared:
 
Thanks Cano, I'll look into that. And yes, I was using the polygon lasso tool.
 
Just chipping in here, dont forget to crop the image once its been lowered.

I wont enter into this, I definitely dont have the time right now but I will see what you guys put out.
 
Cano
Speedster: I like your nose! The car in general looks coherent, it looks like it has an all-fiberglass body. your problems are easy to adress: the front opening, just copy/paste the original mouth opening and make it bigger, so it wont just look like you put a black layer there, and it actually has borders. 'Sides, you're gonna fill it with mesh anyway.

For the nose openings and the headlamp covers, as these are custom made pieces, I don't know how you traced them, I'd suspect it was with the lasso pen tool. However, they look too sharp. Just give them a blur filter and see them magically integrate with your car. The side air intake is the most ambitious part, complicated to achieve.

And it could use some rivvets in the rear side window, and some reflections or carbon fiber texture, as could the headlamp covers.
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Sorry for getting back to you so late, been a little busy recently!

Cheers for your comments, very thorough and informative! 👍 I'll certainly try to fix those issues that you mentioned, also the custom made pieces were made using the pen tool which I noticed made the edges seem really sharp, but had no idea how to fix them! The side intake was a tad ambitious too, think I'm going to redraw that as it doesn't look right in my opinion, almost looks like a decal! :scared:

In regards to rivets and reflections how would you go about creating them? I did think about using the dodge tool to create reflections but I'm not sure how well that would work.
 
haha, copy and paste the rivets off another car, dude.

Look, you don't have to go and create all the parts in your car, when someone else in real life have made them somewhere. The argument that to be a good chopper you have to brush even the wheels is bonkers, because most of the time it won't look real. I learned this a long time ago, and since my work is for my chops to look as real as possible, I always try to find real parts and mate them to my needs.

As for the reflections, yes, the dodge tool works, if you need to create a vanishing point for the reflection simply make a horizontal selection in the entire part and create the reflection parting from there. Then add the carbon fiber layer, which, by the way, also comes out the best if you copy/paste it OFF real carbon fiber.

Hit me if you need a good C/F picture. I have been using a single one since day one and it has never let me down.
 
Haha! You're right. On second look that rear tyre, rim and wheel arch is completely off... Will doctor it later.
 
I hearby declare myself the chop Champion
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What's going on with this? I would like another try so I hope there is still interest, maybe I can get some canadian guy to try one next time. :trouble:
 

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