[Photoshop Tutorial] - [1337 Pixel Cars]

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[Photoshop Tutorial] - [1337 Pixel Cars]

PEN = PENCIL TOOL

This can be done with any Photoshop verisons.

1) First of all, grab a neat, large good picture of the car you're going to make art of.

(NOTE the pictures here are scaled down to cut down slowness)
Example:

2) Now, in photoshop load up the picture. Then copy 'n' paste into new window so you can mess with layers and such.

Next, crop out the car to get rid of the useless space around the car in the picture.

Make a new layer over the picture for the outlining.

To being the outlining, use pen 1x1 pixel, black of course. Being at a point on the edges and use shift+clicking to make lines. Intead of hand-drawing it yourself, which would be very messy.

Shift+clicking

Hand drawing, see the difference?

After some tracing, your art should look like this:

(I made the white background to check my work without seeing these nasty transparent background)

3) Basic coloring, this part is easy.... use fill-in, make sure you use pen and set limits which colors will fill in. For example, if a panel is missing a pixel, the colors go all over.

So after coloring, it should look like this:

4) Last, the hard part, shading and advanced coloring. Should I explain how shadow and highlights work- lighter colors for highlights and relfect, darker for shading and shadow.. etc, etc.

EDIT: As for the glasses in the headlight, simple make a new layer and "overdraw" the headlight layout. Then use light gray (for non-reflect look), and white (reflect). Trim(Erase) the edge of the glass so that it fits the headligh then change the transparent of the layer and you've made a glass.

So the finalize work:

(For windows I used gradient tool to make window-like effect)

Here's other examples of the process:

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Last edited by Guest on Tue Sep 20, 2005 12:43 am; edited 2 times in total

K9 Carlos · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 7:02 am Post subject:

!split and stickied so it can be found easily.
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GotMilk? · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 9:01 am Post subject:

<3 you own

Guest · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 10:39 am Post subject:

Welll, there I made a tutorial for you all to cum on, now let's see some cars from you guys. Very Happy

RCSI · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 10:55 am Post subject:

OMG
i was somewhat confused and was not sure what tool you were using at first so i wanted to make sure
but darn i am learning the same thing in my digital art class at college

well we are learning to use the pen tool actually

here is stuff my instructor has made in illistrator

http://home.comcast.net/~carartwork
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Guest · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:04 am Post subject:

He got a nice galley. Surprised

theboomboom · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 4:35 pm Post subject:

elapsed time...?
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Bender · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:44 pm Post subject:

damn those pics are hawt
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