[GALLERY] Wakeboy's Photoshop Practice projects.

[Wakeboy1337]

I have had photoshop cs3 sitting on my Hard drive for months now and just yesterday I got around to using it.

Here's what I can do so far.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/abc7896321045/Grand%20Prix/gtp1.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/abc7896321045/Grand%20Prix/2gtpcopy.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/abc7896321045/Grand%20Prix/2cars.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/abc7896321045/Grand%20Prix/gtp4.jpg

Any tips for doing things like this more realistic in the future?

[Con]

Don't forget to keep your shadow in the composition. I'm not sure why you cut yourself out before combining. If the shots line up you can just keep the general area around the subject you're adding since it shouldn't be any different from the others.

[Wakeboy1337]

It's hard to keep my Shadows because sometimes when I goto take the other picture the colors come out just slightly different and when i goto past myself in, some of the ground around me doesnt match up just right. Same with the car, it can come out two different shades of red.

[Con]

Adjust the colours of that layer and use a large soft brush to erase a border between photos so you don't get a line.

[Patrickssj6]

I like that second picture ^^

[Wakeboy1337]

How are these?

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/abc7896321045/Grand%20Prix/gtpr.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/abc7896321045/Grand%20Prix/gtpg.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/abc7896321045/Grand%20Prix/gtpb.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/abc7896321045/Grand%20Prix/3colorscopy.jpg

[Con]

They look unrealistic, the green especially. What method did you use to change the colour?

[Wakeboy1337]

Err.. I seclected all of the red via Magic wand tool, then went to brushes and picked the color replacement brush.

[Con]

The problem with replacing colour is that some areas of your car have a different amount of saturation. When you replace colour, you lose that information and the saturation of the affected area is replaced by the adjustment colour's saturation. Also, try to work with layers rather than the brush. Layers are a lot more flexible in the first place, and they also let you make changes later on of you need to do so (which is often).

Below you can see my first slice replaces colour, while my second slice shows hue replacement. I did this by roughly selecting the car with the wand tool, and using that selection as a mask on a new layer. For that layer, you just click the make mask button and it will use the current selection. I filled the layer with the bright blue and changed the blending mode to hue, rather than colour like I did in the first slice.

You can see the reflection of the clouds are more realistic, because the car reflects clouds as white, which is less saturated than the paint colour around it. Of course, it gets a little more complicated if your reflection has multiple colours in it--you would want to adjust your mask so that it wouldn't fully replace the hue of the reflections. Cars are pretty easy though, just look out for blue sky reflections on the upper surfaces and try not to replace that hue.

Now let's suppose you wanted to apply a greyish blue to your car instead. Changing the saturation of your adjustment layer does nothing, since it only affects hue. We want to retain the lower saturation of the cloud reflections, so what I did in the last slice was duplicated my blue hue layer and desaturated it, changing the blending mode to saturation, and decreasing the opacity of the layer.

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/9656/39164919qa8.jpg

The final blue colour looks more realistic than the first, and less fruity than the second.

[Wakeboy1337]

Holy crap conscars that looks amazing.

I'll try it like that a little later. I need to run out and get some job applications today :<

[Zeph]

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/abc7896321045/Grand%20Prix/2gtpcopy.jpg
This is wrong. Use the image from when you're sitting on the car as the base layer. It looks like you're floating because of that small change in the way the car is supported not being there.


http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/abc7896321045/Grand%20Prix/gtpr.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/abc7896321045/Grand%20Prix/gtpg.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/abc7896321045/Grand%20Prix/3colorscopy.jpg
Lower the saturation and slightly lower the value of the recolors.

[Wakeboy1337]

Aside from the shitty use of the wand tool hows the job on this one?

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/abc7896321045/Grand%20Prix/Untitled-1copy.jpg



This is wrong. Use the image from when you're sitting on the car as the base layer. It looks like you're floating because of that small change in the way the car is supported not being there.


Lower the saturation and slightly lower the value of the recolors.

Actually the middle one of me is the base.

[Zeph]

Aside from the shitty use of the wand tool hows the job on this one?

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/abc7896321045/Grand%20Prix/Untitled-1copy.jpg
Still need to play around with hue and saturation. Dont use the magic wand for stuff like this.





Actually the middle one of me is the base.

Yes, I know and knew that. Dont do it. Use the one from where you're sitting (interacting) on the car.

[Wakeboy1337]

Well if I cant use the magic wand for stuff like this how do I select what I want?


Sorry about that misunderstanding :P

[Con]

I don't see a problem with the magic wand as long as you clean up the edges of the selection, because you have some red bits showing.

[Roostervier]

You can still see the red reflections and stuff. :\

Also, if I don't use the magic wand tool, I usually use the polygonal lasso tool. It works pretty nicely.

[Invader Veex]

For something like this, I usually go to select>color range

[Con]

For something like this, I usually go to select>color range
That'll give you half-assed selections that you have to fix anyway, the wand is better here.

[il Duce Primo]

How would someone fix the red reflection on the other car?

[Wakeboy1337]

I was wondering that too.

[Kalub]

PEN TOOL > ALL



ffs

[Zeph]

PEN TOOL > ALL



ffs

photoshop pen tool fucking fails. if you want to do vector work, do it in illustrator.

[Kalub]

Fuck off, Illustrator is for furfags.



The pen tool is awesome for making masks, screw the lasso tools.

[Con]

Fuck off, Illustrator is for furfags.

hah, so true

[Apoc4lypse]

photoshop pen tool fucking fails. if you want to do vector work, do it in illustrator.

This.

Actually its not that bad and I started off with it so... meh.

Illustrator is really the ideal thing to use tho if your doing Hard Core vector art like all out...

E: what in the world is a furfag, I swear first time I seen someone use that one. XD

[Con]

E: what in the world is a furfag, I swear first time I seen someone use that one. XD
I'll let you find out on your own.

[Kalub]

Ok dude, first off why the fuck would I want to do a mask in illustrator using the pentool, oh wait the title of this thread says 'photoshop'. All furfags out. Naow.

[MMFSdjw]

Anyway, on topic,
doing color changes like this I normaly duplicate the layer and create a rough selection with the pen/polygonal tool and create a mask from that and clean it up with the brush.

And the reflections would be done the same way but would require a bit more work in masking the area.

[Con]

^.

The polygonal select tool is a godsend. I use it all the time, and please nobody bitch that it can't handle curves.

[Kalub]

Anything has to be better than the freeform lasso....



Hello shift locked angles and stuff. :)



(Everything in photoshop is a godsend, if you use it correctly. Shalt I pull out the picture of that one person's gf?)

[MMFSdjw]

Anything has to be better than the freeform lasso....
Hello shift locked angles and stuff. :)
(Everything in photoshop is a godsend, if you use it correctly. Shalt I pull out the picture of that one person's gf?)

I've found some of use for the lasso but not without my tablet.

And not everything in ps is a godsend but most things are.

[Kalub]

n u