[bfeely]

I probably won't be able to upload my attempt till Sunday evening, or Monday morning.

[bfeely]

Here is my work in progress.

For the time being I won't be working on removing the reflections. This image is part of a larger composite, the porsche will be cut out from the street and put in another environment. So ... I now have to work on it with view to how the new environment will reflect in the new bodywork.

It is not perfect, it is at half way house.

I will be back, no doubt to ask advice when I need to put some new reflections in.

[bfeely]

I forgot to mention that I did not use gradients or the clone tool. I found that they did not allow me to apply colour or tone to the shape of the car.

This was exclusively retouched with airbrush, noise filter, gausian blur, motion blur and tonal adjustments with the curves.

[DJ Dubovsky]

Looks like you didn't need our help after all. Excellent results. You will have to show us the finished product and let us know what techniques you found most productive. Good going Bernadette and good luck on the rest of it.
DJ

[mike hide]

steps 5 and 6 of the referenced tutorial are a total mystery to me .
perhaps some one can explain what exactly a "screen grab of the image was used as a "roto backdrop""is, and more importantly how it is achieved . In addition what kind of program are they referring to, some kind of CAD program?
n step 6 the file 3DBG tiff is mentioned .Where does this come from ,could it be the car image already produced .
Sorry guys and girls but I am a total novice at this endevor.
When I read stuff like this i feel as if i have been living on some other planet for the last 60 years ,or perhaps I am stupider than I thought

[Sharon Brunson]

Mike, I couldn't find the screen grab or roto reference in steps 5 & 6. Kinda sounds like a Tim Allen tutorial.

I think the 3dbg.tff is in the 3dbg.zip file that you can download near the bottom of that first page that the link takes you too.

It is like learning another language, isn't it. I figure it's good exercise for the 2 brain cells I have left.

Someone else will check in with the other info for you.

Sharon

[Doug Nelson]

A rotoscope is basically a tracing image, one you use as a drawing guide, but does not appear in the final work. A screen grab would be a screenshot, presumeably a quick and dirty method of taking the car image over to his 3d modeling program as a pictorial reference to make his background.

So yes, he used another program (though I doubt it was AutoCAD...probably LightWave, 3DMax, or any number of other 3d rendering programs)

[mike hide]

Thanks for the reply Sharon and Doug .

The references I was refering to were in http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutor...al.asp?id=22541
click on "cutting out the car" and go to step 5 and 6.

Seems to me this tutorial is written for people with significant experience in this field and are used to cross correlating photoshop with other programs .

Not explaning in detail steps 5 and 6, and referring to the programs he uses makes what would appear to be a useful tutorial totally meaningless to the average clod like myself

[Mike R]

Bert Monroy: Photorealistic Techniques with Photoshop & Illustrator (Digital Masters series)