Photoshop fun

[vanzuuk1]

For some reason I am getting a little red x where the pic should be. help!

[DarkBuddha]

Check again... ImageShack might've been down.

[vanzuuk1]

that is really cool , thank you.

[DarkBuddha]

I liked the small numbers and I resized your name on the quarter... I think it looks a bit better. I like the race flavor, but I think I'd really ghost the numbers more to make it a bit more subtle, like so:

[TonyL]

I can't believe one of these hasn't been done.

[DarkBuddha]

I was just looking at some vintage stock car pics of '70-'71 Torinos, and wondered why they didn't quite look as good as this photochop. Then I remembered the one mod I did that I think made the biggest difference: raising the rear wheel arch to match the front. This really changes the looke of the rear quarter, making it look more flared and racy. That would probably be the most difficult part of pulling this look off.

Anyway, for anyone who cars, here is a list the mods on this photochop:

* Raised rear wheel arch to match front.

* Shaved a bunch of stuff, including door handle, marker lights, rocker and quarter trim, wheel well moldings, and front license plate.

* Blacked out front windshield trim and verticle side window trim.

* Shaved lower side window trim.

* Smaller sideview mirror

* Dark tinted windows

* Front aluminum airdam, rear aluminum spoiler

* Side exit exhaust cut into rocker

* Quick fill gas cap on rear quarter

* Wheel/tire swap to upsized 17" stock car style wheels and Goodyears

* Ghosted flat black lettering, numbers, and logos.

* Flat black hood

Easy in Photoshop, but real life... $$$$

[TonyL]

Here's a Nascar style Cyclone for ya...

[vanzuuk1]

is that real or a chop,either way its cool.

[DarkBuddha]

That is sweet! Simple lowering job and the right wheels and tires gets most of the look. Simple but effective. And it looks too legit to be a photochop. Now I wanna know who's and where...

[DarkBuddha]

I can't believe one of these hasn't been done.

Mantas are very cool looking cars, but I could never get over the inherent Opel-ness of them, you know what I mean?

[Damn True]

How cool would a Monza done up like the ones that raced in the late 70's t/a series (but w/o the big ol wing) be?

[Damn True]

Some interesting stuff here: http://www.genefeltonrestorations.co...es%20Rides.htm

[Damn True]

This little gem is for sale:

http://www.genefeltonrestorations.co...y%20Torino.htm

[TonyL]

Thanks for the ultimate in photochop compliments. now for the "whos and wheres"




wheels and tire lettering lifted from a real bush series car. (lots of color blending involved) Door handle and lock removed. grille blacked out. (headlamps from another original pasted over) lowering job. Removed chairs from behind car. extended rear spoiler to flow better. Put reverse "71 Cyclone Pro-touring" on the display sign. Removed antenna and door lock pulls from window. Blacked

out licence plate.

[69rs]

Boy, that's an awesome chop! I don't pretend to know how you guys do those, but I know most of the time you can tell something has been done.

[TonyL]

wheels are the kicker. 9xs out of ten its the wheels that give a chop away. the key is to use Google's image search and find EXACTLY the same profile your donor car has.

mine was this car.

once you have a convinceing set of wheels the rest falls into place. Stance. Simply cut around the bottom of the cars and the wheel wells and lower the body of the car over the wheels and tires. Sometimes you have to rotate the upper portion of the chop to get the right perportions.

Here's an example of the "cut lines"

cut lines are yellow. The rest is using "clone" to remove shadows and things that ruin the look you are after. (the chair behind the car, the logo in the upper right corner, the door handle, etc) and then you're done!

[bnickel]

Tony, were you in on the conversation we had a few weeks back about the opels? the thread was actually about the GT, but i prefer the manta myself. the one i was talking about looked a lot like this one but the flairs were a little more squared off

http://www.galiciaenralis.com/OPEL/M.../mant0078.html

this would be a badass little mini-touring car with a GN turbo v6 and a 5 speed.

[DarkBuddha]

Nice work Tony. You make it look easy. It's all so obvious now that you point it all out, including all the little leftover artifacts. But when you don't have the original for reference, it's really extra convincing. The one thing that kinda had me guessing one way or the other was the lack of shadow at the tops of the wheels/tires from the fender covering them. But then I thought that the show floor lighting could be playing games. Still, nice work.

I really had a tough time finding a decent wheels image at the right angle for my Torino 'chop. Easily over half of my initial time on one of these is simply image searches. Find the right cars with right angles and it all falls together. I apparently have pretty lousy luck because I always end up having to modify the shape and perspective on everything.

[TonyL]

I Use Google ALOT. Image search works well, but the finesse is in using the right terms.

Nascar, Bush series, Nascar display, all yeilded different results, remember to use the "advanced" search and go for the larger image size. These pics were both in the 1024x728 or bigger catagory. then shrunk down after all the work was done.

Remember, when searching for the correct wheels, not to dismiss cars that are facing left when you need a right facing wheel. You can always mirror image the "wheel" car. and get what you need.

[TonyL]

ok. its 2 am. i've been messing with your torino. I wanted to see what my wheels looked like, and then one thing led to another..... that was 2 hours ago...