what program do you use to do chops? i wanna learn how too but i need a program?

 

Most of the people around here, I believe, use photoshop...I also use photoshop, It's a pretty expensive program but once you get it you'll soon realize it's worth every penny...If all else fails go with MS Paint

 

i got adobe photoshop but i dont know how to use it

 

mess around with it for a bit...or get a book from the library, I'm sure they have tons of books for it. Also read some tutorials online, that's what I've been doing and I've been getting a lot better. Also, try some of the competitions on here like the S2000 chop, expiriment with it and see what you can do. These programs just take time to learn, I've taken two years of photoshop inmy high schooland I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what this program is capable of...so just mess around with it for a bit and you will get good at it eventually

 

i got photoshop too, but i don't know how to use it either...

 

i jus dont get how u put body kits and rims and stuff like that but thanks for the help

 

im pretty sure that the people who created photoshop dont know all the things that it can do. haha. the possibilities are infinite. as far as putting rims or body kits on.. the number one main thing you have to make sure of. is that the angle of the car and the part that you're chopping are near the same. that way it will look as close to real as possible. if you have to skew and stretch the part being chopped it will lose its believability.

when chopping in rims.. open the picture of the car in photoshop. then open the picture of the rims you'd like to chop in. use the lasso tool or the magnetic lasso tool to select the rim. make sure your edges are clean and not choppy or it will look bad later. then use the select/move tool and drag the selected rim into the picture of the car. this will create a new layer. (you can merge the layers or flatten the image later to save filespace, but for now, keep the layers separate.) if the rim that you've brought in is the right size (which is very rare) just move it over the rim that is there currently. if it is not to size, hold control and hit T. that is the hotkey for free transform (which can also be found in the Edit pulldown menu). you now have a bounding box around the rim which you can use to resize, reshape and rotate the rim. when you have it the right size and shape. hit enter to apply the transformation. then (what i do) use the blur tool around the edges to help reduce the choppy pixelated edges.

the same process goes for adding body kits or hoods or spoilers or whatever you wanna do. the main rule of chopping is to be creative!!!

like i said before. when using photoshop.. and your brain. the possibilities are endless.

hope this helped.