best way to crop ur car

Death Ranger · Post by **Death Ranger** » 08 Jun 2005, 00:11

what's the best way to crop a car out of the game to puton say a cool background or gradient? cuz i'm using the rubber stamp or lasso to paste it roughly and then get rid of all the unwandet bits with the history brush or eraser, it's a lot of pain staking work and i don't always get good results (i.e shaving off parts of the car)

p.s i'm working with photoshop cs2 and using a mouse

plz help....

prince1142003 · Post by **prince1142003** » 08 Jun 2005, 06:20

cs2... kool program... i use the magic eraser.... works for me... but of course i never take shots of my car in the garage... the lighting is always so wrong....

i used to use background eraser on paintshop pro 9... but then i got photoshop cs2 and started using the magic eraser.... both are highly effective, although i find that with both, i need to do a little "hands-on" tuning to get the result i want....

to get the gradients, use layers.. put the gradient on a layer below the car...

hope this helps

Death Ranger · Post by **Death Ranger** » 08 Jun 2005, 14:59

bur the magic eraser always erases little parts of the car, an unforgivable detail

prince1142003 · Post by **prince1142003** » 08 Jun 2005, 19:31

never happened to me... then again, i take shots of my car just outside the airport place thingy.... i use the NFSU2 +10 trainer... it has a camera lock option... i find taking shots here result in the car having much more detail and reflections than in-garage shots... google for the tool, u'll find it

here are the settings for my magic eraser (all defailt, i ddint change a thing)
Tolerance: 32
Anti-alias; Checked
Contiguous: Checked
Sample Layers: Unchecked
Opacity: 100%

i can never use just one tool to get what i want... i always need to fine tune... after using the magic eraser, i use a 1 pixel eraser to shave off the nasty edge-remnants it leaves... time-consuming, but to each his own...

AngelSiN · Post by **AngelSiN** » 09 Jun 2005, 22:50

I use smiply Polygonal Lasso Tool in PS, best way for me...

boganbusman · Post by **boganbusman** » 10 Jun 2005, 07:24

^^same here.

It's fool proof

Dragon-of-Rune · Post by **Dragon-of-Rune** » 10 Jun 2005, 09:57

^^ Agree i do the same.

Death Ranger · Post by **Death Ranger** » 11 Jun 2005, 10:13

well, i tried it too but it's too freaking hard to chose the car, the whole car and nothing but the car

Dragster · Post by **Dragster** » 14 Jul 2005, 00:29

What do you mean, you have to click around the car to select it.

-hidden- · Post by **-hidden-** » 14 Jul 2005, 14:57

He's saying it takes a long time to do it right and he's looking for a faster way

P.S. lasso is probably the fastest way, but i haven't experimnted with them all yet.

hope that helps

Team_Sleep · Post by **Team_Sleep** » 26 Jul 2005, 20:33

^^^ agree with everyone, I use polygonal aswell, I used to use the magnetic lasso sometimes in showroom1, but then I was using in-game shots which usually made a better contrast between light and dark areas, but for showroom pics it's just too unpredictable even if you set the anchor points to it's highest setting

UrQuattro · Post by **UrQuattro** » 28 Jul 2005, 01:14

Lasso and patience. Works well.

Pinecone · Post by **Pinecone** » 28 Jul 2005, 03:22

l use the polygonal lasso and get up close removing bit by bit, it never takes more then a couple minutes. I think its more accurate then the magical lasso since that one goes off course when attempting to go through contrasting areas. Plus it works well when taking out the little holes between certian spoilers

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Focer · Post by **Focer** » 28 Jul 2005, 04:13

Polygon lasso, and then finish up with a brush in quick mask mode

Focer · Post by **Focer** » 28 Jul 2005, 04:21

Offtopic: Can you make car reflections in Photoshop CS2?

Kinda like that

Dragster · Post by **Dragster** » 28 Jul 2005, 04:24

Yes you can, duplicate the car layer, flip it, transform it using ctrl and alt and adjust it to fit, then adjust the opacity of the layer

Focer · Post by **Focer** » 28 Jul 2005, 04:27

Tnks a lot, I'll try that

Focer · Post by **Focer** » 28 Jul 2005, 06:45

And here's my first reflected car

Pinecone · Post by **Pinecone** » 28 Jul 2005, 13:47

people would be able to appreciate it if you had a garage

Focer · Post by **Focer** » 28 Jul 2005, 18:52

oh well...

Nothing Inc ™ · Post by **Nothing Inc ™** » 09 Aug 2005, 10:26

polygonal lasso.