Photoshop work

[R6_kid]

Alright, been playing around with this a bit lately and have a couple of mates telling me im 'pretty good' at it. The stuff I've been doing is pretty simple though and i have a project for a friend on the go at the moment.

This is your chance to show off you photo-editing skills to the KB community.
Try and keep it as bike-related as possible and show before-after pics so we can see what it is you've done and how well you pulled it off.

Here's my first play.
before (http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=41211&d=1157793149)
after (http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=41320&d=1157882430)

[The Pastor]

Damn G thats alright aye.

[kels]

Very clever :yes:

[Big Dave]

Couldn't do something with the geek on the bike?

[R6_kid]

some girls said he looked hot on leather so i left him there. C'mon people surely im not the only one with a slightly creative flair!

If anyone knows how to add a gloss (eg to black) or a shine (like to chrome/silver) i'd like to know how.

With the first pic all i've done is masked the original stickers, used colour replace to an approximation of the surrounding blue, then used a couple different tones of the blue and airbrushed to keep the shading right, then to make it look natural i blurred it to keep the continuation.

For the tail piece and belly pan i did the colour replace again, selected area to change then just made it darker/lighter and changed the hue/saturation to get the desired colouring.

Just pulled the stickers off of a Xerox Replica Ducati so my friend can see sorta what their bike is gonna look like (can't show the rest or colour combo coz its a secret!)
Again, just selected the stickers that were white, and changed them to approximation of surrounding red then went to work with airbrush and smudge.

[Big Dave]

If anyone knows how to add a gloss (eg to black) or a shine (like to chrome/silver) i'd like to know how.

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Doddle.
Draw a path over the required area.
Make it a selection from the paths palette.
From the 'edit' menu select 'adjust' then 'levels'
drag the ensuing right hand sllder about half way to the left.
Job done.

[R6_kid]

fark me... that changed it heaps! Takes away that drab look and makes all the fairings look like real plastic again!

[SuperDave]

No bike related stuff unfortunately - Maybe I'll onto one of the my motoTT trackday photos to try out some colour schemes for a possible repaint of my race fairings.

[The Pastor]

Just pulled the stickers off of a Xerox Replica Ducati so my friend can see sorta what their bike is gonna look like (can't show the rest or colour combo coz its a secret!)
Again, just selected the stickers that were white, and changed them to approximation of surrounding red then went to work with airbrush and smudge.


You missed one sticker.

[The_Dover]

Hey Gareth, can you use photoshop to remove the pole from the riders arse?

[Big Dave]

Hey Gareth, can you use photoshop to remove the pole from the riders arse?

You want Kawolski for yourself?

[The_Dover]

No, but I promised Maurice something exotic and european for his birthday.

The dumb fuck thinks he's getting a Moto Guzzi.............

[R6_kid]

You missed one sticker.

yeh, but that one looked cool!

[Motoracer]

That's pretty good man. Which version are you using? I got CS2 V9 (Think it's the latest?).

You teaching yourself or are you doin a paper in Uni on it?

I am being taught at Uni but fukin ell, we got one loopy lady that nuts off at anyone who asks questions. Might as well be teaching myself..

Keep up the good work.. Are you into photography at all itself. Got a cam?

[BigTex]

eh not really much. I do the PSing out sometimes will I can see the dust bunnies on my sensor in the picture. Drives me fuckin nuts doing each picture! :angry:

Not really a good one... I'll have to find another.

Did a slight crop, shadow highlights, levels, contrast, and sharpen (only in the first damn it! :angry: ) Can't find the original out of camera tho.

Color (http://zballantine.com/Pictures/6362.jpg)
Color moves (http://zballantine.com/Pictures/636.jpg) (added noise on purpose)

[Korea]

I occasionally play with Photoshop for shits'n'giggles when I catch a shot of a friend in a silly pose or something. Still, I'm not very good...

#1 Friend cornering inspired me to add the ravenous tiger
#2 Guy watching bikes with legs crossed - should have been in ballet!
#3 Feeling inspired after watching King Kong
#4 Posted before; a mate in Power Ranger pose:
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=34955&d=1150565640

[BigTex]

^ :laugh: those are pretty good

[R6_kid]

MR, i just been playing a bit. Used to do aircraft textures for flightsim and repaint whole planes into RNZAF colours, but i did most of that in MS Paint and took ages to do what i can now do in a few mins in PS.

Unfortunately i'm only running PS5.5, my mate is gonna help me aquire a copy of the latest PS-CS2

[Back Fire]

damn that ducrappy one is bloody good :first:

[Animal]

MR, i just been playing a bit. Used to do aircraft textures for flightsim and repaint whole planes into RNZAF colours, but i did most of that in MS Paint and took ages to do what i can now do in a few mins in PS.

Unfortunately i'm only running PS5.5, my mate is gonna help me aquire a copy of the latest PS-CS2
Mate, I do so envy you. I have a client who always wants a Visual Reality depiction of the machines I design for him, and it takes me bloody ages to achieve very little. I use a Viz or Max as collaborative software to Inventor, but I wonder if more could be achieved using PS? If only there were 36 hours in a day, I might have the time to find out!

[Switch]

Nice :yes: :first:

[Big Dave]

Unfortunately i'm only running PS5.5, my mate is gonna help me aquire a copy of the latest PS-CS2

good luck - it has to be registered and initialised online as part of the installation process.

V6 is fine.

[Big Dave]

I like the biker v pan(sy) minataurs!

[R6_kid]

Went out today and bought the EP from a band called Cobra Khan (http://www.myspace.com/cobrakhan). Liked the album art so decided i'd have a play and see what i could do. Heres the images before and after. Still a few things to tidy up to make it look real nice, but its a complete image now which is enough work for one night!

Hope you all like it.

Pics are the front cover, a scan of the front/back cover on one page, and the completed image of the two covers joined together and gaps filled in etc.

[Korea]

Nice job on the album cover - would make a nice graphic for the back of a helmet... or something.

How was the music?

[R6_kid]

Yeh, i was thinking helmet graphic, jacket patch, tattoo etc.... pretty cool dont know that i'd really want it stained in my skin though.

Music is pretty cool, its indy punk from Auckland. The lead man used to from Sommerset if you are familiar with them, they broke up last year. Check out the link in the post with the pics to the myspace site, it has some songs you can listen too there if your keen.

[Motoracer]

I have to design a booklet for a huge project for Uni. One of the adverts that has to go in it is an advert for Coca Cola.

We were given a few logo's and a Coke bottle and design could be just about anything relating to our theme. My theme is Japan.

So I found this fridge at the back of a ute near K Road yesterday when I was desperatly hunting for subjects. Took a photo. Then I used the Image I got from Onearmedbandit from Japan and replecated reflection on the glass (This was pretty hard getting it to look like that). Then I used the coke bottle and pretty much filled the fridge with it and I had to recreate the inside of the fridge as well to make it seem realistic.

It's the most complex task I've done in Photoshop without any specific instructions and I'm pretty happy with it.

[Motoracer]

The finished product. I just have to put some text in it.

[MattRSK]

Thats cool motoracer. Almost as cool as my super zorst.

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44687&d=1161763346

[WarlockNZ]

MR, i just been playing a bit. Used to do aircraft textures for flightsim and repaint whole planes into RNZAF colours, but i did most of that in MS Paint and took ages to do what i can now do in a few mins in PS.

Unfortunately i'm only running PS5.5, my mate is gonna help me aquire a copy of the latest PS-CS2

Photoshop CS 2 is the shit .. i kid you not

[R6_kid]

awesome work MR, looks mint bro. Loving the cokebottles. If ya got time you could go hard and get a pic from a coke fridge like they have in munchy mart at Auckland Uni and use real coke bottles, otherwise i'd give you top marks man.

[Seraph]

Havn't touched PS in a while, but saw this thread n whipped it out resulting in the image below...I know it isn't that great but im out of practise :P

[Monorail]

nice job. the only thing i've ever used photoshop is cropping and removing dark splodges and all. the occasional zit also had to be removed... and a few were added to certain people

[MattRSK]

I saw someone's avatar on here and I liked the idea, thought I would have a play. Not so good but what do you think?

[Motoracer]

awesome work MR, looks mint bro. Loving the cokebottles. If ya got time you could go hard and get a pic from a coke fridge like they have in munchy mart at Auckland Uni and use real coke bottles, otherwise i'd give you top marks man.

Cheers Dude.


I saw someone's avatar on here and I liked the idea, thought I would have a play. Not so good but what do you think?

Before going any further after you have made your selection, use the Feather tool and go anywhere from 3 to 15 pixels depending on the effect you want to give and the size of your image. It gets rid of the sharp edges, so it looks more "natural".

[hayd3n]

iid like to be taught to use photoshop
i have 7.0

[R6_kid]

Best thing to do is find and image and have a play, otherwise get on google and lookup 'photoshop tutorials' and find one that you like.

[hayd3n]

yea i know ive looked gee it is a very deep program so much to learn in one life time lol

[retro asian]

Photoshop CS 2 is the shit .. i kid you not

CS4 is the grand shizzle...

You can do all kinds of 3D stuff...

[gwigs]

danger in the fog......

[retro asian]

CS4 is the grand shizzle...

You can do all kinds of 3D stuff...

Example:

Demonstrating the new 3D cone function. This is supposed to be kinda like a photo/poster being blown in the wind...

1st photo taken by EJK
2nd photo taken by some dude called twittey (@deviantart)

[popa griffin]

No bike related one bit.

But i dont care cuz im to lazy to start up photoshop and spend an hour or so whopping ass at it.

But this i started with nothing and made my desktop image.

I think i atached it.

[skidMark]

No bike related one bit.

But i dont care cuz im to lazy to start up photoshop and spend an hour or so whopping ass at it.

But this i started with nothing and made my desktop image.

I think i atached it.

that chicks pretty bangin.

[popa griffin]

that chicks pretty bangin.

Well she is a porn star i found somewhere along the way.

Completly inocent i swear. My mate sent me a link :shifty:

[GurlRacer]

I did these while I was in Norway and missing home...
Very amateur but it kept me from being homesick too much...

1. New Zealand koro
2. New spin on surfing?
3. Just thought this was cool...
4. Made for my Dad, he said those words when he completed the Dusty Butt :)
5. Kids :)