What would you think about tuning your bmw by replacing half of it with pieces of an old Cuban car? You would get something like this:
Talk about a pimped car!
Maybe a little difficult to make this in real life (a challenge for the people of West Coast Customs?), but in Photoshop, everybody can do this.
How? Read on:
1. Find your source-pictures. I found this picture of a Cuban car and this one from a BMW. There’s only one place to find your materials: Google image search. Open the files in Photoshop and throw them in a single file (from the size of the BMW-pic). Call the layers “cubancar†and “bmwâ€.
2. First thing to do, is to mirror the red car. Select the layer and apply edit>transform>flip horizontal. Now, adjust the size of the car with the free transform tool: press ctrl+T or edit>transform>free transform (if you set the layer opacity to about 60%, you can see trough it, so it’s easier to crop to the right size).
Now we have our two cars in place.
3. Now draw a path around the right part of the Cuban car, withour the window, with the path tool. If you haven’t worked with the path tool before, read this first. (If you want to save a path for later use, give it path a name)
Turn the path into a selection by clicking on the third icon at the bottom of the path palette.
Then, apply a layer mask on the cubancar-layer with this selection (everything outside the selection becomes black in the layer mask and in this way invisible).
Now you may delete the shape layer.
4. Click on the layer mask to edit it, and paint with a soft brush (for example size 100, opacity 50%) over the transition, to make it fade nicely.
5. It’s time to adjust the colors. Therefore, make a lasso selection (“Lâ€) around the red part of the Cuban car (so our adjustments won’t effect the color of the license plate and the chrome).
Copy and paste this part to a new layer (ctrl+C , ctrl+V). Now, press ctrl+U or go to image>adjustments>hue/saturation to change the colors. Use this values: hue: -136, saturation: -86, lightness: +8 (experiment with this settings).
Set the blending mode of this layer to “colorâ€.
6. There are still some parts of the BMW visible from behind the Cuban car. To solve this problem, select the bmw-layer (first, duplicate the layer – because we need it in the next step- and work on the copy) and take the clone stamp tool (“Sâ€) to stamp these parts away. Alt-click to select a color/texture (for example the grass or the stones) and then brush away, over the car.
7. Last thing to do, is making a BMW-worthy wheel out of the old Cuban frontwheel. Copy the front wheel of the bmw from the original bmw-layer and paste it. Use the eraser (“Eâ€) with a soft brush to make it blend nicely with the cuban wheel.
Finished!
February 8th, 2006 at 3:19 am
Ow shit damn illusion
February 11th, 2006 at 5:58 pm
there is a mistake with the perspective of the two cars, the one has an other than the other. because of that the result-car looks a little bit warped
greetz ocin-r
February 12th, 2006 at 1:22 am
Sorry I don’t really like it. But the idea is there !
February 12th, 2006 at 5:18 am
yea.. it’s suck??? sorry for that.. i thinks… it too obvious!!! the prespective of two cars.. are not equal….
February 12th, 2006 at 9:48 am
And isn’t that a Z8? I could be wrong…
February 12th, 2006 at 7:55 pm
Okok, calm down
I wrote this just because I (and some friends I showed this to) found this quite a funny picture, not for its extremely high educational value ..
February 13th, 2006 at 12:45 am
you for got about the adm shadors
February 13th, 2006 at 2:54 pm
It’ll only work when you have two good cars, this one is outta perspective too bad
February 13th, 2006 at 2:58 pm
angle is not match
February 16th, 2006 at 1:27 pm
Hey, man its cool but looks unreal.
February 19th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
….baddd!
sorry, i don’t like it because it don’t look good…
February 19th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
bad perspective, dont look real at all, sorry m8! Try to do better when you’re making tutorial(s)..
February 19th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
good luck;)
April 11th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
I am a beginner, but how the heck do you do this: “throw them in a single file”
I wish the author was more specific, it’s very frustrating to figure things like this out.
April 12th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
You drag one image into the Photoshopfile of the other.
May 6th, 2006 at 5:17 am
So interesting site, thanks!
May 6th, 2006 at 6:17 am
Hello there! Just want to say that I find your site enough interesting for me. Usefull information and all is good arranged. Thank you for your work. I will visit your site more ofter from now and I bookmarked it.
May 7th, 2006 at 6:25 am
I’m really impressed!
May 16th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
Great website! Bookmarked! I am impressed at your work!
June 12th, 2006 at 10:46 pm
First, thats a BMW Z8, or as they call it now, the Alpina. The effect is not very photorealistic, more like a cartoon effect like that from the movie, “Cars.” Still very good final effect and comical. Nice work!
July 29th, 2006 at 8:14 pm
Well, the idea is good but the angle of the 2 cars is different so that makes it look a bit weird. But good job nonetheless
October 27th, 2006 at 8:15 pm
sspkts60 Great website! Bookmarked! I am impressed at your work!
November 18th, 2006 at 1:35 am
Cars wheels r both at different angles, colour doesnt fit in2 background and shadowing disappears under the front of the car?? good idea but a few more steps needed….
January 24th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
nice pice of crap