Cam's Photoshop Thread

[A4A4A4]

Well, I just picked up photoshop yesterday, started toying around with it, and so far have made a few attempts to alter cars. Should give you some sense of what I'm able to do with my limited skill.
























So now I offer my service to you B7 community, I'm running out of ideas of things to practice on, and I'm sure many of you are looking for some mock-ups of your cars.

I gotta lay down a few ground rules first though as I've seen these types of threads get a little chaotic.

1. When requesting, tell me exactly what you want. The more detail you add to the description, the closer I can get it.
2. Give me a picture of your car before you request anything and make sure it's of decent quality.
3. One photoshop per person. This doesn't mean I can't do more than one thing in the photoshop, just means I don't want to return more than one picture. For example I can do something like lower the car, tint it, new wheels, etc... all in one photoshop, but I'm not going to show you the wheels you want in 8 different colours. Saying that, if I do really want a second photoshop, PM after I've done the first for you.
4. If you want some obscure wheels, you're going to have to A. provide me a pic of the wheels you want, B. make sure they have brakes behind them, and C. make sure that they're at the same angle your car is.

I know that's quite a bit but we'll see how that goes. Let the requests begin.

[cellg8]

wow...to be honest I'm impressed by the quality of your work.... can't believe you just picked up PS yesterday! great work, sir! and yes...you've made them very 'OEM +'!!! haha...:p

[Smoothie104]

Cam, is that your Black Ti? I've got the same wheels and tires, and that is the perfect drop and rake!! do you know your FTG measurements and/or suspension specs

[wildcat333]

winning

[CorneliusRox]

If you are getting rid of the TI wheels, let me know ;-)

[drumnjuny]

seriously impressive PS work

[A4A4A4]

Thanks a bunch for the kind words guys but the point of this thread was kind of for you guys to request some more photoshops you want to see!

Cam, is that your Black Ti? I've got the same wheels and tires, and that is the perfect drop and rake!! do you know your FTG measurements and/or suspension specs

I sure do, 24.75" FTG front and rear. Koni FSD shocks w/ Eibach Pro Springs. I also have 17.5mm spacers in the rear and 15mm up front.

If you are getting rid of the TI wheels, let me know ;-)

Sorry, Ti wheels aren't going anywhere.

[pw211]

Hey man looks good, my best advice to get better is to try playing with hue and saturation with the wheels to match the picture.

[A4A4A4]

Hey man looks good, my best advice to get better is to try playing with hue and saturation with the wheels to match the picture.

I hear ya, I've found the silvers a little more difficult to get the tones exactly right. Gunmetals and black are defintely easier, here's to hoping practice makes perfect.

[pw211]

That one looks a lot better, and watch the outsides of the old wheel. If you don't already, turn down the opacity of the wheel when placing it over the old wheel, and you can center it better.

[A4A4A4]

That one looks a lot better, and watch the outsides of the old wheel. If you don't already, turn down the opacity of the wheel when placing it over the old wheel, and you can center it better.

Great tip Pat, didn't even think of that. Thanks.




Now does anyone want anything photoshopped?!

[Elliott]

Will you photoshop a T-rex driving an R8 underwater

[Jay-Bee]

Will you photoshop a T-rex driving an R8 underwater

Hell yeah! lol

I want to see the fifteen52 Tarmac wheel on my black Avant with window trim blacked out and a bit of a tint. At work now so I can't get a lot of public images. Will update when i'm home, I had a p-shop of this before but it was pretty rough and they slammed the car and tucked the wheels, not the look I was going for.

Great work Cam.

[Smoothie104]

All right.. Cam.. your first photo of your Black Ti, can you make it brilliant red, with carbon mirrors? and smoke the side marker..

[A4A4A4]

All right.. Cam.. your first photo of your Black Ti, can you make it brilliant red, with carbon mirrors? and smoke the side marker..

The mirrors are actually carbon in that picture so that one shouldn't be too hard, smoked sidemarker and black to red coming up.

EDIT: Okay I've been going at this for a while and I've come to the conclusion that it is impossible. Black just gives off too many reflections to turn it into red. Sorry Smoothie. 0/1

If you want, post a picture of your red car and I can lower it, tint it, black it out, etc...

[CorneliusRox]

I cant wait to see the red. colors off of black, or white off of anything is hard

[A4A4A4]

Will you photoshop a T-rex driving an R8 underwater

Done.

[Elliott]

WINNER!

[A4A4A4]

All right.. Cam.. your first photo of your Black Ti, can you make it brilliant red, with carbon mirrors? and smoke the side marker..

Tried it on a different picture, added a black roof, a bit too matte, not enough gloss but hopefully you get the idea.

[A4A4A4]

Hell yeah! lol

I want to see the fifteen52 Tarmac wheel on my black Avant with window trim blacked out and a bit of a tint. At work now so I can't get a lot of public images. Will update when i'm home, I had a p-shop of this before but it was pretty rough and they slammed the car and tucked the wheels, not the look I was going for.

Great work Cam.

Hopefully this is what you were getting at.

[DRAKLORE]

Cam, wondering if you could darken up my wheels, mirrors, turn my door pillar trim matte black(like that now) and put the German blue marker on the left side of the plate... Also remove the darkened amber corner in my headlight... I also want this roof rack in there...
Maybe you can flip this pic?

And lastly as close as you can get to Noggy and transplant the lower DTM front bumper just because I will not always be so brave with my fmic...

Now
I know this seems like
A tall order :-/ but it's ultimately what I want my car to be... I really hope you cam do it...
Here's a donor pic


And here's the one I want PS

[DRAKLORE]

Here's a really good angle for the bumper!!!
Also wanting side skirts from reflak but can't find any pics :-(

[DRAKLORE]

Alas another donor

I am impatiently waiting, but take your time:-) so far I'm very impressed by your work!!
My wife has taken two PS classes and has done some impressive stuff but we don't have a computer anymore :-/

[A4A4A4]

Alright let me see if I can wrap my head around all of this.

These I can do for sure:
-Gunmetal wheels
-Black B-Pillar
-Black Mirrors
-Add blue part of europlate

These I might be able to do:
-Remove darkened corner on headlight (Not sure exactly what you mean here, you want the orange cap back?)
-Roof rack

Things I probably can't do (but I'll definitely try):

-Bumper transplant (Do you want DTM or RS4? both of the pics showed different bumpers)
-Paint whole car Noggy

Did I miss anything?

[DRAKLORE]

Thx cam :-)
And yes I want cc mod lol I like being unique but I'm digitally removing some f'n dumb ieds from my headlamps and want to know if I should tackle it while I'm there...

The roof rack I just gotta ^see if u can attempt it :-/

The bumper I'm not really partial to either, but whatever one is easier for you ;-P as u know I absolutely hate that reiger POS on there now...

And Noggy is what will wrap it all up... If you can at least get close/if you feel more comfortable doing charcoal that is the second color of my choice...
Thx again
Lots of love

[A4A4A4]

Okay I'll give it a shot, still not sure exactly what you want with the headlights. Stock, Clear cornered, or Joeyed?



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[DRAKLORE]

Almost likethe last one, but my carriages are murdered out even more. I'm not going to be that picky though (I do have an imagination lol)
But I just want the CC mod lol so that piece on mine where it's black (I'm the only B7 with the blacked out front side marker) o want to ^see it cleared....
Thx man

[A4A4A4]

Almost likethe last one, but my carriages are murdered out even more. I'm not going to be that picky though (I do have an imagination lol)
But I just want the CC mod lol so that piece on mine where it's black (I'm the only B7 with the blacked out front side marker) o want to ^see it cleared....
Thx man

Here's the first part done, I'll move to the harder things now.

[A4A4A4]

Best attempt at the roof rack.



Don't think I can do the headlights or the colour change with the pic you gave me. It's just too dark up front, not enough contrast for me do much of anything. Sorry, I'll give the bumper a shot though.

EDIT: I'll give the bumper a try tomorrow, having troubles with it now but I think I'll be able to get it eventually.

[DRAKLORE]

I'm laughing so hard right now lol
It just looks so goofy with that color

[DRAKLORE]

Cam your doing good, I really appreciate you having a go! I'm sure you will get it :-)
Thx again

[Checho]

here's one for you,

make this car:

1) Ocean Blue
2) Mexico Blue

[A4A4A4]

Sorry man, can't do anything that looks decent at all without a higher quality photo. Here's what I came up with though.

Mexico Blue

[Solarsuplex]

Soo, lets take checho's wheel color, make it green and make my chrome window trim that color.
Iffff that makes sense. lol

[A4A4A4]

Soo, lets take checho's wheel color, make it green and make my chrome window trim that color.
Iffff that makes sense. lol

You want your chrome trim a greener version of Checho's wheel colour? That's all?

[Solarsuplex]

Yepp, like, that style of coloring, but green. a very light green. but still shiny.

[pw211]

Here serg, not to thread jack.







And bumper transplants suck, here's a quick one DRAKLORE (looks like shiite):

[DRAKLORE]

Actually not looking too bad :-/

[A4A4A4]

And bumper transplants suck, here's a quick one DRAKLORE (looks like shiite)

That's almost exactly how my bumper transplants keep coming out. Sorry Shane.

And your green window trim Mr. Suplex

[ahdyuro]

Can you make his car Quartz grey and paint the wheels Satin black?



Thanks in advance.

BTW I'm in Calgary as well