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From: Missouri
Hmm. I don't know if I really like the amount of post processing done here. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea behind the pics, and I think it's a good starting point, but the 3rd pic, at the bottom of the vents there's some greenish teal artifacts, and your highlighted areas have lots of pink/purple in them, plus the heavily accented shadow ont he hood is probably a bit too dramatic. the lines going up the hood in either direction are just too defined.
If I may ask, when you separated the body from the trim, was it with the polygonal or the magic lasso? perhaps it was the magic wand? cause those teal artifacts are either missed pixels, or they're extra pixels (can't tell without knowing what you did to get there, but my guess would be a couple of layers of the body + some layer styling (possible modify, screen, or perhaps darken? maybe even color dodge..) my point is, if you use the pen tool, you can make any angle necessary to follow the lines perfectly, and that won't happen, you'd even end up turning your selection into a vector image so it could be re-sized without any pixelating edges.
Just some constructive criticism and food for thought... if you wanna chat about it drop me a few lines, maybe we can exchange ideas, or something, always like to talk PS with people
If I may ask, when you separated the body from the trim, was it with the polygonal or the magic lasso? perhaps it was the magic wand? cause those teal artifacts are either missed pixels, or they're extra pixels (can't tell without knowing what you did to get there, but my guess would be a couple of layers of the body + some layer styling (possible modify, screen, or perhaps darken? maybe even color dodge..) my point is, if you use the pen tool, you can make any angle necessary to follow the lines perfectly, and that won't happen, you'd even end up turning your selection into a vector image so it could be re-sized without any pixelating edges.
Just some constructive criticism and food for thought... if you wanna chat about it drop me a few lines, maybe we can exchange ideas, or something, always like to talk PS with people
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Joined: Jun 2008
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From: Missouri
Hope you don't mind. I was bored, and figured I'd just correct the artifacts for you. I also attempted to correct the hood, but without the original PSD file I didn't really stand a chance heh. Cleaned up the pinkish hues in your highlights. While I was doing that I also, I noticed a lot of grey lines, I cleaned those up, and I looked at your other photos, lots of grey lines in those too, I am assuming that's a desaturated layer showing through. May want to touch those up a bit as well. There was also a bump on your bumper, Drivers side (right side of photo) near the bottom under the fog. I corrected that as best as I could.
EDIT: Here's a tutorial on how to cut out with the pen tool that will be your life saver ;-) http://www.onlyphotoshop.com/Tutoria...tool-c-80.html
Anyways, here's the image.
EDIT: Here's a tutorial on how to cut out with the pen tool that will be your life saver ;-) http://www.onlyphotoshop.com/Tutoria...tool-c-80.html
Anyways, here's the image.
Last edited by DigitaLSD; Aug 28, 2008 at 11:36 PM.
