Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Tutorial: Purge Valve
Really cool valves which shoot out shots of nitrous into the air. I’ll be honest here and say that this is my first attempt at a purge valve, so please bear with me, as I’m learning too! lol..
Purge Valve
Difficulty – ****

First, hunt for a suitable location for the valve. I’m tempted to go [...]

Tutorial: Adding BMW Z3 style wing vents
A pretty unique styling modification, that, once practiced, is pretty easy to master.
Z3 style vents
Difficulty – ***

For this tutorial, I’m using a Ford Focus as the test bed, I’m gonna pop the vent on it [...]

A nice set of aerodynamic mirrors can really set off a car… here’s how Wing Mirrors

Dif ficulty – * *

Ge t rid o f this ugly mirror…. Get your ass onto google.com and image search for [...]

Tutorial: Wide arches
Quite hard this one! Well, follow it by the rules, and it shouldn’t be too hard for you.
Wide Arches
Difficulty – ****

Standard arches ready for widening.

Make a selection like on the left (using the Elliptical Marquee Tool [...]

Tutorial: Wheels Upgrade to some nice sporty rims with this basic tutorial. Wheel Change

This Mini Cooper S looks pretty nice on the standard rims anyway, but lets make it slightly better!

Try and find a donor vehicle at the same angle [...]

Tutorial: Van Conversion If you have a 3 door hatchback, its pretty easy to get it to look like a van. Here are the step by step details.. Van Conversion

This is a Honda Civic, about the right shape for some van action.To do [...]

Tutorial: Neons
Add that underglow to your chops.
Neon
Difficulty – ***

Standard car… ready for neons.

Make a new layer by going to Layer>New>Layer. And then use the Lasso tool and go around the car like the pic on the left.

Fill this lasso’d area with a nice neon colour.. [...]

Tutorial: Two Tone Paint
In a modifying world where wackiness is the key to success, a standard single tone paintjob will not suffice! So here are the instructions to create two tone paint. Two Tone Paint

With this car, we shall [...]

Tinted Windows

Get ready for some pimping action ;)

Go around the outter edges of the windows with the lasso tool (L).
Then go to image>adjust>brightness/contrast and lower the brightness.. DONE!

Or if you fancy some Jap style tints why not go to [...]

Tutorial: Still to Motion A simple way to make you car look like it’s moving. Still to Motion
Difficulty – ***
The car you want to set in motion really should have a driver in it! If not it looks rather stupid. [...]