So I started messing around with Gimp 2, and so far, this is pretty much all I've learned to do (then again, it's all I really wanted to learn to do so far lol... maybe I'll work on color changes next). Anyway, how do you guys think these look?









Now I just wish I still had the civic so I could do this kind of editing with it... I don't have similar enough hood open/hood closed pics of it

Oh well... I can promise I'll have some of these of my 240sx when I find a decent one to buy (after I paint the valve cover and do some cleanup, of course)

*edit: not really sure if this should be in the chop shop or sights and sounds, but I'm putting it here since it deals with my newly developing chopping skills lol... if a mod feels it should be in SNS, feel free to move it; I won't be offended

 

if anything...id make the engine a little more "cloudy" if you know what imean

 

sexy lol i never though of that... butttttttt... my engine is a lil faerie girl so eh forget it :P

 

lol thanks... I saw a picture like the 2nd one in Super Street (I think... maybe Sport Compact Car) a few years back and I wanted to do the same thing ever since.

And GReddy, you're probably right, for the first picture anyway... I don't know what it is, but there's something I don't like about the first one... maybe I should've made the hood a little less opaque. But I definitely like the way the second one turned out (which is sad because it took me like 15 seconds to do lol (but the 2 pictures I used were literally almost identical, so I didn't have to move anything around).

 

i love how those look but never knew how to do them....
i need to get your some pics of my car to do that to. LOL

 

It's actually pretty easy. Like I said, I'm using gimp (pretty much because it's pretty close to photoshop, but it's free). If you can get me two identical pictures of the car (one with the hood closed, one with it open), it'll only take me like 20 seconds to chop.

Also, here's one I did this morning when I got bored (same technique, just using a blur instead of making one layer partially opaque). I know all the crap I'm doing is incredibly easy, but it's a start, right?

 

where you get that program at?
unfortuantly i dont have a tripod yet. ive wanted one just havent yet.

 

just go to gimp.org i believe but yeah i actually like gimp more than photoshop its easier to use

 

^yea and when you go to run gimp, it might start to seem like it's frozen whenever it loads the fonts... just let it sit and it'll do it. At least it did that on my old windows computer. Starts right up on my mac though.

 

yup, gimp.org. I believe it was nike that originally posted about it and got me interested in it. But you don't really need a tripod, just try to get the angles as close to one another as possible; they don't have to be perfect, just close.