Saxperience - Citroen Saxo Forum

i have decided to make some tutorials to help people learn how to use photoshop and to do thier own cars on it

Program i used was :Adobe Photoshop 7.0

first tutorial is

Lowering

start by opening the picture you want to work on

firstly right click on the tool shown below and select polygonal lasso tool.

select round the car as shown below and then click copy (Ctrl C) and then click paste (Ctrl V)

then click and hold Ctrl key and use the up and down arrow keys to choose your ride hieght

thats basically it for lowering

Wheel Change

select the polygonal lasso tool as shown below, and carefully go round the outside of the wheels and tyre

once selected go to the move tool shown below and drag the wheel from this picture onto the picture you want it on

resize the image to the correct size and put it in position,then you may need to rub out some parts which overlap the wheel arch like below, select the eraser tool and just neaten it up

once neatened up it should look similar to this

if the colour is too light or too dark then go to the brightness and contrast settings as shown below and adjust them.

then do the same for the front wheel too

Smoothing and Removing

simple things like de-locking and removing side badges and rear badges can be achieved using the smudge tool, it wont always work depending on lighting in the picture

right click the tool shown below and select smudge tool

the you use it a bit like the eraser tool and smudge selected parts out
here i have smudged out the door locks and the VTR side badges
you use the same method to debadge aswell

thats basically it for that

Colour Coding

firstly select the polygonal lasso tool

and select round the first bump strip as shown below
once its selected click (Ctrl+C) copy and then (Ctrl+V) paste it

once pasted go to image>adjustments>desaturate as shown below

then go to image>adjustments>brightness&contrast
and brighten it up a little and it should look like this

then you can choose the colour by going to
image> adjustemnts> hue&saturation shown below

mix with the setting and try and get the best colour match you can

it shouldnt be too difficult to get a similar colour match

once youve done that you can do the rest of the bump strips in the exact same way

Job Done!

Tinting Windows

once again use the polygonal lasso tool shown below

select round the outside of the window, once selected this time go to layer> new> layer as shown below and when the little box pops up click ok

once you have done that the area will still be selected and go to the paint bucket on the left tool bar
select colour black and click inside the selected window
this is what it shud now look like

now go to the layers box on the right hand side and as shown below where my cursor is the box called opacity, click the arrow and change the opacity down, i moved it down to about 20% but adjust it to how much tint you want

do the same for the rest of the windows

an alternate way, you can also just select the window and go to image> adjustments> brightness&contrast and just tone the brightness down a bit, but i found this method gave better results

Copying other Parts

simple things like new lights and exhausts etc can be done by using the same method as the wheel changing

polygonal lasso tool around the part you want

use the move tool and drag it onto your picture

resize it etc and position it corretcly

it is better to find a donor pic of the part you want from the same angle as the picture you are working on as it is easier to make it look realistic and fit in, use this step for any copying and pasting of body parts or wheels etc

and lastly

Colour Change

use the polygonal lasso tool again

and this time select round the whole of the outside of the car as shown below
once you have done this it should look like this

now you need to de-select anything you do not want to colour, like the lights, windows etc
to do this hold down ALT and begin selecting round windows etc with the polygonal lasso tool
doing this whilst holding the ALT key will deselect them
it should now look like this

once done click copy (CTRL+C) and then paste (CTRL+V)
now go to image> adjustments> hue/saturation and begin mixing with the colours to get a nice colour
you can use other things from the menu like brightness and contrast and variation to enhance the colours etc

Remember to do the mirror or mirror caps too

heres couple of examples

other colour can be made like 2 tone/ pearlescent colour by going to image> adjustments> colour balance

then mix with those setting to create different colours

all these tutorials put together creates this

Wallpapers

you could also use photoshop to create wallpapers of existing pictures using the filter options etc

heres a quick example of a pic of saxo180 car (cheers for letting me use pic :y:)

base image

wallpaper

these are just a few of the simple things you can do with photoshop
ill keep this updated and will be adding more things to it when i get the time
but these are the main things people ask others to do for them in this section so why not give it a go

Next updates will be

carbon fibre (the proper way)
meshing
wheel colour change
wide mouthing
and more....

hope these help :y: