Tutorial: Colour Coding Black Strips Colour code those awful black strips. Colour Coding Difficulty – * Those should be body coloured! Grab the lasso tool and draw closely around the black strip. Make sure you follow it as close as possible. Then go to image>adjust>brightness/contrast, and increase the lightness of the strip. So that the brightness... [Read more]
Tutorial: Colour Change This colour change section shows you how to achieve a colour change.. its not the most realistic, but one of the easiest! Plain Colour Change Difficulty – * Standard colour is pretty boring huh? Let try and make it a little prettier.. Go to the layers box in the bottom right of the screen. And right click the main bodywork layer.... [Read more]
Tutorial: Clear Lights Get rid of orange indicators for that fresh look ;) Clear Lights Difficulty – * Front indicator with horrid egg yoke. Grab the lasso tool and go around the orange bit like on the left. Hit Ctrl+Shift+U.. and your done. Read More →
Tutorial: Clear Lights Get rid of orange indicators and clear out rear lights for that fresh look ;) Clear Lights Difficulty – * These bright pinky Citroen C2 clusters would look much better clear.. It’s all down to personal preference, but I’d stick to only clearing lights on silver cars only as it tends to suit them very well. Right…... [Read more]
Tutorial: Changing the backdrop Easy step by step, Hardest part is finding the new background images! Changing the backdrop Difficulty – ** We want to add a backdrop to this convertible. Get a new background backdrop.. such as a field, or a sky.. (try searching on “Google image search” for “landscape” or “backdrop”... [Read more]
Tutorial: The Ultimate Guide to Cartooning/Bodykit Designing I’ve had MANY MANY MANY .. emails asking me how to do the bodykit designing. I don’t like revealing my secrets, but your all doing my head in!! hehe.. So here’s everything you’ll need to know on how to do it! THE BASICS STAGE 1 Okay…. The first stages of creating a cartoon is... [Read more]
Tutorial: Carbon Bonnet I decided to update the old carbon fibre tutorial I made, this one actually involves making a pattern, The effects are extremely accurate. Thanks to AL off the forums for supplying it!!!!! Carbon Bonnet Difficulty – *** Ok then, lets give this lovely standard Lexus IS200 some street racer style in the form of a carbon fibre bonnet. To... [Read more]
Tutorial: Burnout A simple way to make you car look like it’s moving, and smoking at the same time! This tutorial uses some of the still to motion tutorial! Burnout Difficulty – **** The car you want to set in motion really should have a driver in it! If not it looks rather stupid. Now, zoom in on the front wheel and use the lasso tool (L) and... [Read more]
Tutorial: Sideskirts Program: This tutorial works with Adobe Photoshop – please note that some of the menu structures may vary from version to version. Introduction: Te honest this can actually be very difficult! TRY to make sure you find donors cars at EXACTLY the same angle as it will NOT look right. Also it helps if the kit to be transferred over is the the same kind... [Read more]
Program: This tutorial works with Adobe Photoshop – please note that some of the menu structures may vary from version to version. Introduction: The old favourite. To be honest this can actually be very difficult! Try to ensure you find good donors cars, this makes it a lot easier for you in the long run. That little bit of searching can easily pay off in the... [Read more]
