mason4300

heh, not too hard. First, you need a decent photoediting program. Best of the best is Photoshop. I've never used anything else, except for microsoft paint, but you can't do shyte with MS Paint like the stuff you can do in photoshop. Anyway...First step:Get your picture. The easy ones to do are the profile shots. Photos of angles of the car, such as the front corner, showing the hood and side, take a lot more work. Lets use this image. (keep in mind I have multiple layers of the same photo to work with.) 1. I take the image and squeeze it down to how short you want the car. Don't worry about the wheels or any other items in the picture being out of proportion. 2. On another layer, completely edit out the car from the background so it looks like it was never there. If you want to cheat, you can just touch up the area where the shrunken car doesn't cover, but leave the covered part alone. Here is an example of where the car is edited out: 3.On another layer, cut out the normal sized wheels and the surrounding flares separately, then arrange each of them over the shrunken car where it looks right. If you need to, you can scale the wheels down a little bit. 4.merge the layers, and blend the flares back into the car. 5.Cut out any other parts, such as mirrors, door handles, or any other objects on the car that don't look right on the shrunken car, and put them where they need to be. Walah! And that's pretty much it...I wish I could include more accompanying pics to show the steps, but that would be a small pain in the rear to do that right now, so sorry. You can go even farther and do small things to it, such as chop the roof down to make the windshield more naturally sloped. You can make it look really bizarre and chop the nose and rear of the normal sized car on, which gives it a really cartoonish appearance.

Cool, a professional. Now I don't have to try and explain it. I can make it gold, but yeah, unless I did a lot of work with the lighting and reflections, it's not going to appear much more shiny than it already is. Reflections are what gives objects a glossy appearance.

I was just pming them to them, but ok... I'm still waiting for MB to reply, I don't know exactly what kind of gold he wants, i've seen so many different kinds of "gold" on cars... Once he gets what he wants, I'll post the finished version.

no problem olderthanme. Yeah, i'll see what I can do, MIBPReacher.

eew. nasty, I didn't need to hear that, Mikelly. heh. What a moron, driving around while watching porn and masturbating all at once... Only professionals should attempt that.

If you really want to, thats cool. I would use any money I get for my Z. I figured if anybody had a particulary large project, I could charge for it, but the little things are so simple I figured no one would want to pay for anything if I did charge. Of course, if I do a paid job, needless to say, it will have a pretty high priority.

yep. just send me the stuff you need edited. in fact, an actual file that has sample colors that you have in mind would help a lot, i'd be a lot closer to matching the right color.

Hey. I've already been contacted by a few people about photoshoppinhg their cars, so I figured i'd get myself a little more established here. I have some pretty good experience with PS, it's pretty much my main hobby. I figured i'd open up my skills to this site and offer to do simple jobs if anyone wanted an edited picture to know what something could look like, or wanted a cool sig or something. Well, you can make requests here. If you want me to do something, what I need is: 1. Picture(s) of your car. 2. Fairly detailed description of what you want done. 3. Any other pictures that might be used in the photoshopping process. example: paint job you want on your car; give me a shot of a similar paint job on some other car to reference; body kit; give me pics of the kit. Keep in mind i'm willing to do these for free, so they aren't on the top of my priority list. If you make a request, and depending on the size of the job and how busy I am, it can take anywhere from 1 day to a week or so to for me to have the time to get around to it, but it's free, right? Oh, yeah, if you want to check out some cars i've chopped, follow this link. This is definately not all I can do, but they're the only images I have massed in an easy-to-get-to location. So, yeah, I can do chibi cars. I call 'em midget cars, but chibi's accurate, too, I suppose. some stuff If there is a better forum for this thread, feel free to move it there, mods.

hmm...from what I see, it doesn't look too terribly bad. It might just be the pictures, though.

I could go get ya some pictures of my rods if you like.

Cool, my marker's a 98 as well. I haven't played in a while go, I need a new valve.

This is from an article about his car. I'm sure you could find out exactly what paint it was with a little research. "The striking paint job was done by Frank Alderete's Body and Paint Shop with PPG '93 Ford Probe silver metallic paint with a fine-grain metallic componenent. The body was block-sanded, and a color coat was applied and coated with clear. It's more subtle than most silver paints in use today and very much in character with the '60's body lines."

Go for it! I like how it's a contrast to the more traditional black center with polished lip

Beautiful car, i'd take one any day.

Do you have any pictures of the car? If you put one on here, and create a poll, you'll get more responses. I like brighter yellows, personally, but I don't know which would look better on your car without actually seeing it. Some colors look much better on some cars than others.

I only went with the Viper instead of the Porsche, because for some reason, the town I live in is crawling with them. I only get a minor kick out of seeing a really nice Porsche nowaday, which sucks, because Porsche is probably my third or fourth favorite car manufacturer.

thanks for the link. you actually got to ride in that one?! I fell in love with the kit when I saw that car, it inspired me. Unfortunately, my budget isn't very big, i'm still in High School. I'm one of the lucky few that managed to get one of their favorite cars for their first car.

that sucks, yours is one of my favorite Z's i've seen so far. I hope it doesn't cost you too much.

oooh, how I envy you! If I could afford to do this, I would. My Z is in the perfect condition to put this kit on it...What are the colors you're going to be using? Take all the pictures you can! I've been searching all over the net looking for some decent in-the-works pictures for this kit, and if I'm ever able to do it, I could use the info!

That's why I don't like it, either. I saw a CCR at an autoshow once, I got a pretty good look at the doors. I wish I had had my camera with me at the time, they could have been useful...

Wow! you're brave. rust like that would scare me sh*tless.

Wow, that is an awesome color, Zhadman. Globerunner, that would be an excellent choice.

I agree with Cruez. I like the kit, but the doors should just open normally.

I would go with the Viper then, simply because it's more exclusive than the C5. Not that it isn't a bad *** car, i'd take it in a heartbeat, but you're the one with the money.

Cool...Z's, paintball, fishing, no extra spending cash...we have lots in common!