Here's a quick preview of something that I'm playing around with at the moment. I've still got to add some shadows/highlights to the pic and a background but I'm quite pleased with it so far.

It started out as a picture of my car, on a new layer I've traced the outline and all body panels using the pen tool. I then made made another new layer which is the white background, merged it with the outline and began to add the colour.

Why am I doing this?... I really don't know!! :lol:

http://forums.mg-rover.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=44876&stc=1&d=1256523380

Have I lost the plot?

Cheers,
Ian.

P.S: The front bumper isn't perfect as on the original image it was obscurred so I've had to make a rough educated guess at where the lines were. :doh:

thats awesome mate, I'm actually doing something very similar with my car at the moment too, except I'm using the line tool instead of the pen tool, as my hand isn't steady enough for it haha.

It's a looooong process thats for sure!

Cheers Benny. :D

It's far easier with the pen tool. ;) [Assuming that you're using Photoshop!]

Select black as the colour
Make the pen size '1'
Make sure that the image is about 1500x1200 ish or smaller
Make your first click on the outline (let go of the mouse) and then move further along the outline and hold SHIFT as you click the mouse.....

.....give it a try. It speeds the process up, although it still took me over an hour to do the basic line drawing. :(

although it still took me over an hour to do the basic line drawing.
An hour?! I did an F and a TF and they took about 4 or 5 hours each so I think your doing it in good time mate! :)

It's looking really good though, looking forward to seeing it finished :)

Do you have adobe illustrator ?

An hour?! I did an F and a TF and they took about 4 or 5 hours each so I think your doing it in good time mate! :)

It's looking really good though, looking forward to seeing it finished :)

Do you have adobe illustrator ?
Thanks Lukas. :)

This is my second attempt at doing this (check my thread in 18+) so I've had some practice on the same image.

I've only got Photoshop 7, I'd really like to get CS4 but it's far too expensive for me.

Thanks Lukas. :)

This is my second attempt at doing this (check my thread in 18+) so I've had some practice on the same image.

I've only got Photoshop 7, I'd really like to get CS4 but it's far too expensive for me.
I saw that Ian, real shame it happened and I know what a pain it is so thought it might be mean cracking a joke about it (i.e. to answer your question .... [Why am I doing this?... I really don't know!!] because it crashed last night ! :p :lol: sorry!)

Yepp it is ridiculously expensive, although there are free 30 day trials on adobe's site for every piece of their software - I was going to suggest if you have a copy of illustrator then maybe try exporting your drawing over to that so you could work on it at any size and change colours/ lines quicker than you probably can do in PS without losing the quality on the image

Luke

because it crashed last night ! http://1.2.3.11/bmi/forums.mg-rover.org/images/smilies/tongue.gif http://1.2.3.12/bmi/forums.mg-rover.org/images/smilies/lol.gif sorry!

:twak2: :lol:

Yepp it is ridiculously expensive, although there are free 30 day trials on adobe's site for every piece of their software - I was going to suggest if you have a copy of illustrator then maybe try exporting your drawing over to that so you could work on it at any size and change colours/ lines quicker than you probably can do in PS without losing the quality on the image

A 30 day trial would be great but afterwards I wouldn't want to go back to Photoshop 7 and I'd have to buy CS4. :slap:

I've never used Illustrator before. To be fair, I'm still quite new to Photoshop/image manipulation etc, I have tons to learn. I'll have a look at Illustrator and see what it can do, I've heard of it before but I always considered Photoshop to be the daddy and capable of virtually everything.

Ian.

A 30 day trial would be great but afterwards I wouldn't want to go back to Photoshop 7 and I'd have to buy CS4. :slap:

I've never used Illustrator before. To be fair, I'm still quite new to Photoshop/image manipulation etc, I have tons to learn. I'll have a look at Illustrator and see what it can do, I've heard of it before but I always considered Photoshop to be the daddy and capable of virtually everything.

Ian.
Yepp thats the bad thing about these trials.... afterwards you just want more :lol:

Photoshops the daddy but illustrator works in vectors, so if your drawing was converted into a vector version, you could re-size it etc without pixelating or zoom in on areas without it going into pixelation - both softwares have there uses and work together as well.

Thanks Lukas. :)

This is my second attempt at doing this (check my thread in 18+) so I've had some practice on the same image.

I've only got Photoshop 7, I'd really like to get CS4 but it's far too expensive for me.

I'll let you use my student discount if you want :dddc:

I'll let you use my student discount if you want :dddc:
:lol: Student Discount? You lucky lucky man.... does it save much? I bet that it's still HUGELY expensive though. :)

So any updates mate? ;) :p

:lol: Student Discount? You lucky lucky man.... does it save much? I bet that it's still HUGELY expensive though. :) £185ish I think for the creative suite (photoshop, illustrator, indesign, acrobat 9)