Hey PhotoShop fans show off your BMW's Here. Let's make beautiful cars look nicer.

here's the first one. I basicly turn the background lights off and added spt lights on the car. The I turned the head light on.

On this one I changed the stock turn signals to clear corners. And I turned the fog lights on!!! Pretty phatty I think.

Here's one Before

After

Lowered and Lighting Effects

Before

After like the door handels?

added the wing

about 10 mins work

that z3 sucks, this one i think is better. about 5mins work

there

why isnt it working wtf!

should try changing the contrast and brightness on those mags, will make it look more realistic

VW_Redliner, I'm new to all this. I used your original image. Any problems, let me know.
http://community.webshots.com/storage/1/v0/8/13/12/28681312GZNqnJtkTI_ph.jpg
This is fun.

I don't mind I took it from some website. What program did you use? I'm curious?

Thanks

VW_Redliner, I used PaintShopPro 7.04. Photoshop is too big for me.

That's cool. I might have to get the program. I like photoshop but it is more difficult to use then the paint shop pro series.

Photoshop is a great program, (I have a copy) but for general hacking around, PSP is just so much easier to come to grips with. It's got all the functions, and more, plus its a lot smaller and faster.

Mind you, any one comfortable with their editor - and there are quite a few - will think theirs is pretty good.

How about this one? : eek :

http://03bar.ktu.lt/~adis/bmw7-coupe.jpg

My try at photoshop

original

Here's my very first attempt at modding a car on the computer. Thanks Nick Edwards (http://www.nickedwards.net/)!!

I did this 99.99% in Paint Shop Pro, which I like more than Photoshop. I started in PSP, tried my hand at Photoshop--failed miserably. I thought this might be the opportunity to take advantage of PS's "superior" features. :rolleyes: Whatever. I went back to PSP. Tried to give PS another chance... failed again. PS sucks to use.

This was hard, as the front spoiler was a completely different color and had very bad lighting.

Mods include: MVR front spoiler
Painted moldings
Blue front indicators
Lowered

Btw, I chose the 2002 3er because I wanted to see what it looks like modded.

how do you do the lighting effects on the headlights and the top down like that?

Originally posted by crxlvr
how do you do the lighting effects on the headlights and the top down like that? Photoshop's Lens Flare Filter.

Originally posted by jinushaun
Photoshop's Lens Flare Filter.

thanks

Here is a BMW I did recently

BMW M3 (http://members.rogers.com/hachi_roku/bmw_m3_page.htm)

Heres my Bimmers...
http://link.freepichosting.com/image.cgi/13453/0.jpg
http://link.freepichosting.com/image.cgi/10155/0.jpg

damn JRL that is prolly one of the best carbon fibre hood effects i see............good job man

thanks.

Thats what I ended up with after 3 layers, 2 fill paterns, and a lot of distortion.

Here is mine: Second Chop for me...

This my second attempt, couldnt get the bumper to match. Feel free to try to fix it.


http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/368042m3-supracopy.jpg

your really good JRL, i like the carbon fiber hood;) :)

JRL, you did an insane job on that Z3 or M3 Roadster... whatever it was. Those things look good with a hardtop on 'em ;)

Thanks.

I did it for PSjunkies contest # 8. Oviously I didnt win though.

im sorry for you.........:(

Here's a couple of bimmers I did some time ago.. So please don't criticize them too much.. :rolleyes:
BTW: I kinda like the 800.. :)

http://www.harding.as/niels/1.jpg

http://www.harding.as/niels/2.jpg

http://www.harding.as/niels/3.jpg

This is one that i actually just started working on..

http://pluto.imagemagician.com/images/chopinporkchop/bmwsofarxcopy.jpg

heres mine as always orgs first


http://members.optusnet.com.au/hendrikh/ZTisite/The%20Cars/M%20Coupe%20Org.jpg

http://members.optusnet.com.au/hendrikh/ZTisite/The%20Cars/M%20Coupe%20ZTi.jpg

http://members.optusnet.com.au/hendrikh/ZTisite/The%20Cars/BMW%20Z4%201%20Org.jpg

http://members.optusnet.com.au/hendrikh/ZTisite/The%20Cars/BMW%20Z4%201%20ZTi.jpg

http://members.optusnet.com.au/hendrikh/ZTisite/The%20Cars/BMW%20Z4%202%20Org.jpg

http://members.optusnet.com.au/hendrikh/ZTisite/The%20Cars/BMW%20Z4%202%20ZTi.jpg

nice zammo, nice............;)

JRL u wanna spread some knowledge of carbon fiber? im havin some ruff times

Use the same fill patern as the one used in the psjunkie.com tutorial, and everything Im writing is based on the fact that you guys know how to do the tutorial on photoshopjunkie.com.

NOW, make an second fill patern only this time make it a medium shade brown. It should look identical to the one on psjunkie.com, but it will be brown.

So you should have 3 layers: One with a desaturated hood with the cruves (curves= IMAGE, ADJUSTMENTS, CURVES) set a little darker OR a lot darker in some cases, another layer with the black fill patern, then a 3rd layer with the brown fill patern.

Next is to shrink the fill patern layers (brown and black) down to where both over lap the entire hood layer by about an inch on all 4 corners.

Next is to use the twirl filter located in the distort section of the filters. Set the black layer to twirl one direction, then set the brown layer to twirl in the oposite direction (youll see what im talking about when you try it).

Once your done twirling.....go to edit, transform, distort, and distort the brown and black layers to where all corners of both layers barely hang over the edges of the hood layer.

After this is done, set both layers to multiply. Here is where a lot of trial and error is done. Lower both of the fill paterns (brown and black) opacity to about 20-50% (opacity is located in the layers box, and make use your on the correct layer before you adjust the opacity). Again play with the opacitys until each layer starts to look the way you want it.

Example: set the black at 70% and the brown at 20%, or vis-versa. Theres infinite combinations you can use, try a bunch, youll learn quickly what looks good and what looks bad.

Note: never adjust the hood layers opactiy.

Now you should be in the ball park of what Im talking about.

Theres still more though.

If your hood isnt looking to great at this point, change either the brown or black fill patern to an overlay, ONLY one not both. (this freature is in the same box as the multiply filter). Try diferent combinations here also, its never the same on ever car.

This means only one should be set as an overlay layer and only one should be set at multiply layer. Again play with the opacitys just to see what happens.

Next delete everything, according to the psjunkie tutorial tells you how to and your done.

Damn, nice work guys... :flash: