pics of my car

**BONES1672** · 08-30-2006 01:18 PM

So this is my car... I tried my best to make the stock wrx look as good as possible. It's more for playing with photoshop than showing off my stock vehicle. Thought you guys might like the pics.

I know, lower it and paint the sideskirts

**BONES1672** · 08-30-2006 01:27 PM

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**mustangtx63** · 08-30-2006 05:04 PM

Awesome pics!

Originally Posted by blarg

lower it and paint the side-skirts

***TheJ*** · 08-30-2006 05:06 PM

Originally Posted by mustangtx63

Awesome pics!

+1

**KoreanBeefcake** · 09-03-2006 12:16 PM

very nice.

**Jje121** · 09-03-2006 12:42 PM

Nice pics.

**c00lbeans** · 09-04-2006 11:26 PM

way to much shadow highlight filter. make a copy of the layer and then adjust the levels so you have one bright layer(adjusted for car) and one dark(adjusted for sky) and use a layer mask to blend them together nicely then you will have a nice dynamic range of exposure. the saturation of the gras in 4 is nice and the last one has a nice color temp

**caray** · 09-05-2006 12:56 AM

Nice! #6 is my favorite.

**BONES1672** · 09-05-2006 09:32 AM

Thanks for all the positive feedback guys. And thanks for the constructive criticism c00lbeans, I appreciate that. I just wish I would have remembered to put my antenna down haha. Looks like a bumper car with it sticking up.

I'm relatively new to the shadow/highlight adjustment. I liked the way it made the clouds pop and it was definately necessary for the shadow on the car. I even liked the way it could be adjusted to make the far hill darker in pic 3 to emphasize the depth and add contrast to the picture.

I had never even thought of using a layer mask for a simple image adjustment, like levels or selective color. It just never even crossed my mind. I usually use layer mask to cover up mistakes or blend 2 pictures into one better. So thank you for the new perspective. I'm still learning and I still want to learn new techniques. That's why I like constructive feedback like this.

Perhaps you would like to see one of the original pictures, to see what the differences I made were. This one probably has the most drastic changes. It was the 4th pic. As you can see, that 'green' grass is actually dead hay. I changed it to make it look more different from pic 3. Also, the unsightly shadow on the front side of the car was removed and levels & selective color were used to bring out the colors. Cropping the road out made quite a difference too.