Wallpaper Help LC

[beezasport]

I know it's not the sharpest of images but not bad from a compact and i love the car!!
Is it possible to give it a computer generated look in photoshop?

 

[R953 VSE]

not a bad pic. not sure what you mean by a 'computer generated' look though. care to elaborate?

 

[beezasport]

I've seen one on here somewhere but i can't find it anywhere now!!!
It looked like a auto express image, they look kind of computer generated.

Just really to improve the look of the image to make it look nice for a background/ sig picture.

i'm just waffling haha!

 

[R953 VSE]

had a little play with the colour levels and saturation and a bit of background blur...
what resolution is your screen? you might want a higher res pic for a wallpeper.

 

[RikH]

ill just send you a nice pic of mine james.......it looks better

 

[paradigm]

Hows a about this:

 

[beezasport]

R953 VSE and aparadigm Thanks!! they are wicked! how did you do them? i need to look for some tutorials on photoshop. is it just the hue and saturation?
My screen is 1280 x 800. did you just use the blur tool for the background?

As for ricks comment you're a tit !!

 

[paradigm]

There are about 4 different curves layers of the background to get the effect I was after, the sky is shopped in from another image, and the car has had the contrast played with a little (and sharpened too). There is a 1280x960 image here but due to the small original, the car is a little "un sharp".

 

[beezasport]

Paradigm that's brill thank you all for your help!! i'm gonna have a play with photoshop now and the colour curves!

 

[R953 VSE]

i copied the car itself onto a new layer and then played around with the background. how much megapixels is your camera? any chance of a higher res pic?

 

[beezasport]

i was using someone elses i think that was 4.5. mine is a 7.2 but not got any of the car with that one...when i take the car out next weekend ill get some pics and post them on. just learning how to use PS so this has been a really big help.

 

[beezasport]

so did you use the lasoo tool t cut the car and copy it to a new layer?

 

[elDuke]

your chop

hope you like it

 

[RobM]

elDuke... I was just about to say a greyscale background with the car in colour would look superb! Nice work!

The only thing I'd do is make the edges of the picture a little darker. Burn them a little in PS possibly, just to give it a bit more depth.

 

[elDuke]

like this

 

[stuart86]

just a few quick ones i knocked up.. so not great attention to detail

here you go...

 

[beezasport]

you guys are awesome on photoshop!!!
I had a go with another pic i've got.....

Thanks for all the advice and info i've learnt quite a bit from this thread!

 

[beezasport]

elDuke how did you keep the car in colour? That looks really good!

 

[Boo]

Im guessing a magnetic lasoo on around the car, right click select inverse. Then desaturate background and deselect magnetic lasoo ? You could always try a lens flare here and there, they always make anything look a little more enhanced. Or sharpen edges, could even go as far as to despeckle the background too to make it look like film grain. I was doing some other photoshop work for someone and had a quick go with your car,

 

[stuart86]

theres a much quicker way than that ^^^

just create a duplicate layer
remove colour
then bring the colour layer to the front
erase everything around the car and the black and white background will show through

much less fiddily than a lasso tool