Photoshop Tutorial III - Whitewalling

[rch-13z]

VL-Commonwhore asked for this tutorial a while back & I finally managed to get around to it....

There are two different ways to do it.... If it's directly from the side then this is option 1, and if option 2 is when its not directly from the side and required some extra effort....

Hope it makes sense, I've had half a bottom of Jim so not 100% if it makes sense or not...

Regards
Rich

1. Select the ecliptical marquee option (2nd from the top which is indented)

2. Using the ecliptical marquee tool select the rim only.

3. Go to the top of the screen and click Select > Modify > Expand

4. Go to the top of the screen and click Edit > Copy. Then Click Edit > Paste which will create a new layer (which can be seen on the right hand side).

5. Click on the FX button in the bottom right hand corner then Stroke.

6. Basically once here you need to make changes to 3 things within the stroke screen

• Size = How big you want the whitewall to be
• Opacity = How bright or see-through you want the whitewall to be
• Colour - Obviously you need to choose if you want the wall to be white, red, yellow blue.....

7. Then just copy the same procedure for the rear.... Only difference is that you need to "copy merged" for the rear as there is now more than 1 layer on the document...

8. And your done!

 

[Lumps of cheese]

Very nicely done, great write up.

 

[rch-13z]

Option II for whitewalling - Odd angles etc etc...

1. Use your ecliptical marquee tool again...

2, Rougly go around the rim with the tool, going slightly bigger than the rim is probably a better way to..

3. Go to Edit > Copy

4. Once copied go to Edit > Paste

5. Once you've pasted the picture of the rim you'll see on the right hand side of the screen that you have a 2nd layer with just the wheel in it.

6. Hide the background image by clicking on the little eye beside the layer. Then click on the rim layer. Once that's done click on the magic wand tool which is the forth down the side list and click outside the rim.

The go Select > Modify > Expand. For this example I used 20pixels because of the fact that it's a high resolution image. Normally I only use 2 or 3 pixal gap max...

Then go Edit > Copy Merged. Then Edit > Paste

7. Then click FX in the bottom corner and select Stroke. Select the colour, stroke width (whitewall) and opacity (how see-through it is)

8. Click the magic wand tool as pictured below and select the white/redwall

Then Edit > Copy Merged

Then Edit > Paste which will create a layer with the red/whitewall only.

9. Now comes the fun part of shaping the wall to suite the image/rim.

Click on the border of the image and select Warp (as pictured below)

Basically bend the image from the corners as required...

10. Colour changed to match and perfect fit

11. As seen on the right hand side you'll need to adjust the opacity to make it look a little more realistic....

And your done!

If I've missed parts or if you've got your own ideas on how to do it please post it up! Always happy to find quicker and easier ways...

Rich

PS: Thanks to 97VTCalais for the image of the silver Calais!

 

[Rolla_Rolla']

Finally, Thank you heaps RCH,

Such a good write up

 

[Hillzzy]

wow thats awesome.. nice work man and so easy i would of never of figured
out how to do it lol

 

[sik_VR]

nice tutorial i got another one coming up too

 

[noelberg12]

I think that You have well experienced in the modification of the car in the photos shop level. I see that You have used the warp option for get the tyre image. I like it dude.

 

[crackles23]

Same rims my dad has on his ss v, love em, my goal is to get some for my VS 1 day

 

[mehamgul101]

wow its a nice and useful information sharing in this thread because i was also wanted to do it but i had not know that how to do it and finally you have told us here so lot of thanks for your guidance here

 

[jaime85]

great "white" up