How-To: Lowering a car

[mark]

and to dump a car....

- get a good image with a distinguised background
- find a horizon line (like where the ground meets the sky or where the grass meets the dirt)
- select using any select tool along that line and up over the wheels (in the wheel arch) and all the way to the other side of the page.
- now instead of selecting the car, go all the way to the top, and then all the way across to the other side and down until you hit the original starting point..
if your lost you should have by now, a selected body of a car minus the wheels and the entire background section from the horizon point up...
- now CTRL + X and CTRL + V to cut and copy
- select the pointer tool (little arrow) and move the top half of the image to where u think it'd sit nice!
- use the eraser on 50% opacity and get rid of anything that looks weird, if you stuff up CTRL + Z will undo.
- crop to get rid of the background colour at the top of the image!
- presto! a $1000 lowering job done for free.

any questions?
or any other tutorials you need, let us know!

[hqtunna]

yeah i've always wanted to know how to dump a car on photshop cheers mark, and yeah changing the paint would be tops too.

[OHMYVY]

how hard is that. i have tried for 2 hour and i had got no were.

[OHMYVY]

and to dump a car....

- get a good image with a distinguised background
- find a horizon line (like where the ground meets the sky or where the grass meets the dirt)
- select using any select tool along that line and up over the wheels (in the wheel arch) and all the way to the other side of the page.
- now instead of selecting the car, go all the way to the top, and then all the way across to the other side and down until you hit the original starting point..
if your lost you should have by now, a selected body of a car minus the wheels and the entire background section from the horizon point up...
- now CTRL + X and CTRL + V to cut and copy
- select the pointer tool (little arrow) and move the top half of the image to where u think it'd sit nice!
- use the eraser on 50% opacity and get rid of anything that looks weird, if you stuff up CTRL + Z will undo.
- crop to get rid of the background colour at the top of the image!
- presto! a $1000 lowering job done for free.

any questions?
or any other tutorials you need, let us know!

mark remember me
ok the first underline. "select using any select tool " what tool do you use. do you use the pen tool??

"now CTRL + X and CTRL + V to cut and copy
- select the pointer tool (little arrow) and move the top half of the image to where u think it'd sit nice!"
when you do this is the image ment to move???


crop to get rid of the background" do you have to select the line.

thanx man. should i give up. it took me ages to do that link thing remember last month. this is about 50 times harder.??

[mark]

mark remember me
ok the first underline. "select using any select tool " what tool do you use. do you use the pen tool??

yea the pen tool, or the line select tool (the one that looks like a wire hanger)

"now CTRL + X and CTRL + V to cut and copy
- select the pointer tool (little arrow) and move the top half of the image to where u think it'd sit nice!"
when you do this is the image ment to move???

it will cut whatever is selected and paste it into a new layer, it will put it off centered, you can just use the mouse to click and drag it to your prefered location

crop to get rid of the background" do you have to select the line.

there is a crop tool, just play around with the tools and you'll find it, its a dark square with lines comming off it!

thanx man. should i give up. it took me ages to do that link thing remember last month. this is about 50 times harder.??

nah this shit is simple when you get your head around it!
just keep trying!

[OHMYVY]

do you guys just copy one pic onto two layers then just erase the bottom half of one the layers them just move it down??

is that the easiest way???

[madmick]

this sucks.. i suck at photoshop!

[Matty]

madmick: practise makes perfect, once you relise your mistake, if you know photoshop, you should be able to rectify it yourself.

personal opinion: when i lower cars, i use the "polygonal lasso tool" which you'll find on the tools window(thing) second from the top on the left hand side.
just hold down the mouse over it and it'll open up 3 for you to choose.

with this tool, you can click the mouse once to start the selection, and click it again where you want it to continue to. (you DON'T need to hold the mouse down and try and carefully follow the line of the cars shell)

i suggest you zoom in as much as possible, and follow the line of pixels around the car and up over the wheels

note: a curve is just a bunch of straight lines.

once you've selected all you want. i prefer to copy paste, not cut and paste.

copy (Ctrl+C)
open a new layer in the layers window(thing)
paste (Ctrl+V)

then while the top layer is active (in the layers window(thing))
select the "move tool" on the top right of where you got the "polygonal lasso tool" from, and tap the 'down' arrow on your keyboard until you're happy with where it sits.

note: if it's not a perfectly side on photo of the car, then lowering it will skew a bit, meaning the front or back (whichever is further away from the camera) will look either too high, or the layer behind it will show.
IF this happens, try going to Edit>Free Transform> and tilt your image until it looks about right.


hope i helped.

-matt

[mark]

ohmyvy - spot on!

[folden@308]

just been playing around with this got the grasp off lowering the car but if i try to do it again it only cuts and pastes the bits that i just did,,bit hard to explane but doo i have to merge, blend all the cuts ,so i can like start from scratch on the modified pic,if so how , if i save em they arent 1 picture they seem too be many layers an i want only one layer,i am verry new to this so keep it simple please !
masterd paint but this is realy hard realy hard

[mark]

when you cut and paste what you've done, press "V" and use the point tool to move the paste around until it lines up to where you've got it.

you need at minimum 2 layers to do this chop. once you save it as a .jpg it'll flatten the image

[Pistol-grip]

Is anyone here using a Wacom tablet or Wacom pen enabled notebook/convertible. I think these tools make any photoshop use easier. They are expensive though.

[FryzesBT1]

Great Tutorial took me about 20 minutes to figure it out properly thanx

[staty8]

has anyone tried http://www.digimods.co.uk

this is the website my son used and he is a whiz at photoshop,
this link is recomended majorly, it has pictures and a description, very easy to use

[howla955]

MATE.
I can't get enough. I'm lowering everything. Brilliant tutorial. Love it !