Digitally Airbrushed Car

[ApWizard]

hi guys, my newest work... airbrushing a car

1)source A tha car

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2) source B ... the DRAGON

[ApWizard]

the final version...all critics allowed

[DJ Dubovsky]

Looks pretty cool. I think you did very well with it. You did great in making the reflection show through the dragon. I think that adds to making it look realistic.
DJ

[T Paul]

Great job seamlessly combining to two photos! That’s one mean looking dragon! I wonder if he will help prevent door dings?

-T

[pierresplace]

A question?

Hi,
Is the original "source a" photo airbrushed or was the dragon airbrushed onto the car? I'm confused, sorry.
...Pierre...

[ApWizard]

I've digitally attached the image onto the car (maybe I'm wrong call this "airbrushed")

[Vikki]

Looks pretty good.
I'm wondering if you used a diplacement map? My guess is no.
Have you tried that? It works wonders for this type of work.

[ApWizard]

I've tried it but I'm not be able to map the colors correctly (follow: power distort ).

Any ideas in how to correctly map the colors?

thanks in advance

[revilo]

very cool work - i like it! It looks real.

As for the girl on the cube.. meh -use 3d. Its far more flexible and easier. there are also tools in PS for creating 3d objects with images applied

[Vikki]

I'm not sure what you mean about "mapping the colors".
Also, "power distort", not sure what that it is either, but it seems like a lot of work.
This is what I meant:

http://www.russellbrown.com/tips/pdf/waveofpast.pdf

[ApWizard]

oh well, I know both the method You post with the pdf file. Using a blurred grayscale image is the basic procedure with displacement map, but, how You can see in the power distort tutorial, wtih a correctly mapped colors You can achieve better results (see the cube and others examples).

So, thank You for the pdf i re-try with others images (as You can see the image was posted 1 year ago) and post it again for other constructive critics (like Yours and others).

Thanks again, I'll try to improve this tecnique

[venivedi]

It looks great. I can stand look back the dragon if passing by that car.

I also have to try to improve displacement map skill. So far...I'm staying long~~~ at a basic steps. Do you mind I'm going to give it a try with your source?

[ApWizard]

ok Venivedi, got it

[venivedi]

Thanks ApWizard. I'm having some trial and error with that.
...
# After transforming the dragon with perspective
then duplicate that layer twice.
# First, hide the dragon layer, then Select>Color Range>Midtone(at Car image), Shadows, Highlights in order.
# With each saved selections I made each mask for three dragon layer. Then tried changing their layer blending modes.
That's about it.

Layer Pallette of Attached Image

I haven't used D-map yet...By the way it's a little out of control from the start. Wish me luck. ^^;;;

p.s. Just a question...When did you apply D-map? I mean Earlier part or later part in the processes?

Here's what I came up with.