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Photoshop Tutorial I - Lowering and Changing Wheels

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Ok question on wheels... How do you guys change the angle of a wheel when the original picture your looking straight at it? I think it's got somethign to do with free transform.. But i havent got it to work out for me yet, its just ends up looking like a squashed version of the original straight angle?
 

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Ok question on wheels... How do you guys change the angle of a wheel when the original picture your looking straight at it? I think it's got somethign to do with free transform.. But i havent got it to work out for me yet, its just ends up looking like a squashed version of the original straight angle?

EDIT>TRANSFORM and use the perspective and warp tools
 

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How do you guys change the angle of a wheel when the original picture your looking straight at it?

The short answer is you can't. I find the easiest way of explaining things is to look at it in extremes. If I took a photo of the back of a car, how could I rotate that photo to view the side of the car? I couldn't. Because the information isn't there. Just like trying to change the angle of a wheel - the information isn't there so the best you can do is squash it. That's why I pointed out in my tutorial that you should try and find photos of the wheels on the exact same angle as the photo of your car. And you should also chop out the front and rear wheels individually, because they will be on different angles. The more you have to 'squash' a wheel to get it to fit properly, the worse it is going to look.
 

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The short answer is you can't. I find the easiest way of explaining things is to look at it in extremes. If I took a photo of the back of a car, how could I rotate that photo to view the side of the car? I couldn't. Because the information isn't there. Just like trying to change the angle of a wheel - the information isn't there so the best you can do is squash it. That's why I pointed out in my tutorial that you should try and find photos of the wheels on the exact same angle as the photo of your car. And you should also chop out the front and rear wheels individually, because they will be on different angles. The more you have to 'squash' a wheel to get it to fit properly, the worse it is going to look.

ah ok then, and do you just use google images for finding diffrent angles of wheels/car body's? or somthign else? Photobuket?
 

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Best Tutorial ever! :clap:

Can you do one on how to change the color of a car (but keep the right shading etc)?

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ah ok then, and do you just use google images for finding diffrent angles of wheels/car body's? or somthign else? Photobuket?

Yeah I just go google images, or browse the rides section. Generally I only like Holden wheels, so if I knew I wanted VE Clubsport wheels then I'd just search google images for VE Clubsport to find some good reference photos.

Can you do one on how to change the color of a car (but keep the right shading etc)?

Will get on to it :). There are a few different methods, depends on the colour of the car really. The easy ones are the cars that don't blend in with the background (red, green etc). Silver and black and colours that are similar to the background are a bit harder :p
 

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Hopfully this will take some of the load of us photochoppers! Right rch & levy? good write up man! +1:beer chug:
 

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Hopfully this will take some of the load of us photochoppers! Right rch & levy? good write up man! +1:beer chug:

haha and me ? , but sadly i dont have time to be a photochopper as much as i used to
 
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