I am currently taking a Photoshop class as an elective at my college. I have worked my fair share in the program before but this class took me to another level.
This is the original Image:


The only image I used in this was my original image of my car. Everything else was completely and entirely made from photoshop, including the space image, text effects, lightning, etc....


What do you think?

I also have a full size 2560x1920 PNG file if anybody wants a copy.

 

Wheres the new image?

-Rich

 

cool beans cept next time use the magnet lasso or the regular point to point lasso instead of the magic wand ... if you can ... get a hold of knockout ... kinda hard to use but the results are incredible.

 

I didn't use the magic wand.... The magnet lasso sucks because it can jump off your image. I used the polygonal lasso

 

Cool I see it now... very nice!

-Rich

 

really? are you sure cus if you look at the top of the car there is a bit of cutting into the image oh well looks good either way ... how about selecting your lightning affects layer then expanding and feathering the selection and adding a glow affect with color dodging or maybe multiply since there are not too much differences in color

 

Yeah... I am sure lol, I never use the magic wand, that thing higlights everything. I do notice what u are talking about though. I was thinking about adding a featherd glow to the car, but I need to learn how to do the glow first.

 

Not bad for a beginner. Your original image is over exposed it can be adjusted with the levels tool or curves tool. I wouldn't put the brightest part of that background near the front end of the car it's way too blasted out.

 

Dude! That kicks all camels asses!

 

create a new layer under the lightning then simply select the layer with the lightning affects then go to the Selection menu ... go to modify and select expand and expand it by like say 2 pixels the go back to selection and go to feather and select something small like 3 pixels ... fill your selection with a light color like a light blue color at maybe 20% opacity in the new layer ... go to your layer affects then add a glow filter but don't make it too big ... once done go to the layer properties and find the profile that will work best ... I was thinking color dodge but my friend thinks a multiply would work good ... once you have your selection done reduce the layer opacity to like 50%

 

What he said^^^^

 

nah for real it looks good to me. I can also see the choppyness around the roof and wing, but I can't do any better. I just got Photoshop CS and am starting to play with it just a bit. Hopefully I will learn everything OniMirage is talking about some day

 

lol not hard stuff really but in high school I had a bunch of friends tell me I should publish a book on photoshop but I have been outa the game for such a long time but it's coming back to me

EDIT it's all about layers when using photoshop ... this doesn't mean the more the better but less mistakes can be made if you have more layers and more affects can be done using different sections of the image

 

Lol I have like 12 layers on that image.... Not including the layers I merged...

 

That's pretty good.

 

frkn sweet!

 

Thats Badass

 

Nice work! I like it.

 

Also, not bad for a beginner, but you really should have tried to modify it somehow.... ie lower it...

 

remember that merged layers will rasterize some image effects if they are within the visible status which may change to overall appearance if the merged layer is edited

 

Wicked, desktop worthy!

 

i do a fair share of photoshopping, and i use the polygonal lasso for everything

for glow, you should select the car, copy to a new layer
right click on blending options, go to outer glow, and play with it from there