I think I did mine today.

Before:


After:


Changed:
cropped
cloned out traffic cone
lens blur to background to match lens used (50mm 1: 1.8 5-bladed aperture)
Increase contrast
increase saturation
darken photo
open up grill openings more
clone out scratches
clean up rust
shine tires
carbon fiber hood
clear HID headlights (lens flare)
added border

 

Dude....you don't even want to know.

 

You left out Lens Flare effect.

 

I edited the post. I just included the lens flare in with the headlights.

EDIT: and I do want to know. That's why I created this thread.

 

Wow I just noticed I have some rear camber issues. that was not photoshopped.

 

lol....where's waldo?

 

not bad! the cf hood deffinitely looks fake though

 

xmen baby!

 

Inside the hood scoop.

 

aww really? I was hoping it'd be a little convincing. the headlight looks off to me.

@ ivory8: LOL that's a proper use for photoshop if I ever heard of one!

 

i disagree that the CF hood looks fake, i used to go to photoshopchop.com (a car photoshopping forum) and alot of people use a stripe type method that actually looks worse than that, id like to know how u did the little dots evenly spaced, also it looks better because u see the reflection of the tree in it...i used to do chops of cars but most of em suck...ill go dig up an old 1

 

I think the hood looks pretty real. If someone told me it was real and didn't tell me it was a photoshop I wouldn't think twice about it being a fake.

 

Thats just the thing. They aren't evenly spaced, and they aren't dots. they're tiny gradients that fade from black to white. with a twirl pattern rendered throughout them. Then put them over the real hood, skewed it to make it 3D (the pattern is larger near the front of the hood and finer near the rear). Made the blend pattern multiply, nearly desaturated the real hood all the way (left a little color for reflections of trees and such) and there you go.

 

wow thank you. that's what I was hoping for.

 

There are a few pieces of art on this forum that I have created with PS.

 

are you talking about all those funny ones? I love those!

 

please excuse the crappy backround, back then i was trying to do something to change it.

oh and i just realized i forgot to change the backround in the rear window...ignore that too lol

original

chopped

 

Funny? My work is very serious. Very serious indeed!

 

Ok then. My site. www.altspace.com

 

In terms of automotive fun, here's a few selections.

 

Wow. Some crazy stuff. You do great webpage design as well.

 

http://imaginaryforces.com/media_win...id=4500&size=2

i used photoshop for part of that? (i worked on the end tag)

 

I love FCs

 

Haha thanks. I think you've said that in one of my threads before.

 

Here is one I did for one of Raz's "photochop" contests...