13 iul. 2010

Muscle Car Burnout




In this Photoshop Tutorial i will show you how to make your car burnout a little bit :) To begin we need a picture with a car , and we need to open it with Adobe Photoshop. For this tutorial i choose this car:Now for the burnout to be burnout we need to make the weal look like it's spinning. With the Magnetic Lasso Tool (L) or the Pen Tool (P) select the back weal like in the image below :For the spinning effect we will use Filter--Blur--Radial Blur with a amount of 25 , spin , and good . The car should look now like this :Now we have to add the smoke for the burnout to look real . We will use this smoke brush pack . Download and install the brush pack and add some white brushes on a new layer (Shift+ctrl+N) like in the image below :
Now will come the beautiful part. We will make the smoke to look like it's coming from the tire. For this we will make a rectangular selection in the bottom part of the smoke because we want to shape the smoke to fit with the tire.After the selection is made , press Ctrl+T then right click on the area and click Warp then shape it until you get something like this:Now make again a selection on the bottom of the smoke and from Filter-Distort-Twirl add a twirl of 150 .The hit again Ctrl+T , right click on the area and click Warp then shape the twirled smoke to fit with the weal.The burnout is ready:D I hope this tutorial will help you . If you have any questions just post here . And don't forget to Follow.

6 iul. 2010

Fire Meteor




In this tutorial i will show you how to create a realistic meteor covered in fire . First we need to create a new Photoshop document with black background . Search on google for a nice texture for the meteor . I used this picture :Now open the picture with Photoshop and with Elliptical Marque Tool select a round shape and paste it on the black background .Rename the layer with this shape to Meteor . Now your image should look like this:Next we have to make this shape to look like a sphere . For this go to Select--Load select then use Filter--Distort--Spherize with 100% then do do the Spherize filter again with 50%. Now the image look like a cracked planet.
We must make the meteor look realistic so we will add fire. I used this picture to add the flames :Open the picture with the flames , with rectangular marque tool select one flame and copy it. Create a new document , paste the flame and select just the fire ( go to Select-Color range , click on the black color then press Shift-Ctrl-I and copy the selected area).Paste the fire on your meteor document then from Edit-Transform-Rotate rotate it and from Edit-Transform-Scale make it bigger or smaller to fit with your meteor. Rename the layer to Fire1.The meteor doesn't look good just with one flame . Just repeat the step with the fire and add some more flames . I added 3 flames on separate payers and I obtained something like this:
I attached here my layers :The flames doesn't look so good now but we can fix it . Put the Meteor layer above the fire layers and put the fire layers on Lighten Mode. The image will look like this:The image is almost ready. We must make the meteor to be covered in fire . Duplicate the meteor layer and name the copy of the meteor layer to Meteor2 . On Meteor2 put the layer mode to Hard Light and on Meteor put the layer mode to Overlay.The meteor is ready now :For a more spectacular look , we can add this meteor on a nicer background . For this we need a background( search for a background on google ) and we need to put the meteor on it . Merge all the layers down , go to Select-Color Range and click on the black color . Then go to Select-Inverse(Shift-Ctrl-I) and copy(Ctrl+C) . Then open the background and just paste the meteor . The final result is amazing . I hope this tutorial will help you and if you have any questions just post here .