01-17-2008, 09:57 AM
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Chopping and adding new parts to bike 101
This a rather advanced tutorial in that before attempting it you should be familiar with:
1. Chopping a bike from its background. You can find a tut on that here:
http://www.hdforums.com/m_2692887/tm.htm
2. Putting layers together here:
http://www.hdforums.com/m_2725229/tm.htm
3. There are now several tuts on making shadows on the 101's. Any one of them should do, but I'd read them all.
I won’t be covering the use of tools here if they are covered in those tuts, and it's necessary to chop and layer to do this task anyway.
You could, instead of doing what's shown below, just chop both bikes and put the pieces together on another bg, but just for me this is faster. It's also a good opportunity to demo the clone stamp.
With that said, a member asked to have a Springer front end put on a Deuce. Here are the pics he provided:
The first thing I did was to chop the Springer front end from its background and from the Springer. If you want to practice the clone stamp and layering, here is a link to the chopped front end - the psd.
http://uploadpsd.com/file/19239.psd
The next task was to turn to the Deuce jpg and begin to use the Clone Stamp to erase the front of the Deuce.
You can see the clone stamp selected (yellow) on the left.
Note that the brush size, above pic is 78 in this case, but any size between about 60 and 80 would have worked fine. Experiment. You'll find that you need to changes sizes for different areas.
Note that the Opacity setting, above pic, is 100%. In a different task you might want to lower the opacity so that you could just "fog" over something, but here we want to hide everything.
Note that I have used the polygonal lasso tool to select the area where it is safe to stamp. I have protected the parts of the bike which need to remain in the finished pic.
The clone stamp is used by holding the Alt key while placing the stamp, with your mouse, over the area which you want to copy. Click the mouse to pick up the data.
Next you move to the area you want to stamp over, release the Alt key and Click your mouse. With practice you can hit what you’re aiming at, lol.
Note that I had to keep the line of grass even along the driveway where I covered the windshield, for instance. I did that by putting my circle half on grass and half on cement, picking that up, moving over and stamping.
Remember, if you don’t like what you get, just click Edit> Step Backward.
[size=2]Here is your new blank slate. You could do a better job bu
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