Bmw E46 M3 for the Monthly Competition

by **suzq044** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 11:08 pm

VERY close. I was messing around with photoshop to see what it was that was bothering me about the color. The color of the photo is deceptively cool. Take a look at the tires of your BMW versus the Mercedes next to it. You see how yours have a much more yellow hue? They should be almost identical in hue. The same can be said for the car; I'm not sure what color you were going for on the body, but it's still way too 'warm' for the photo it's in. I would say go back in and mess with color-balance a bit on a few different parts of the car, and see if you can't figure out a balance to give it a more realistic hue, compared to the rest of the photo. You really are very close, but it still needs a few more steps to make it perfect.

by **GeorgeBatranu** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 4:44 am

I have an idea: - duplicate the car layer
-go to image > adjustments > gradient map
-choose the darken color to be something blueish and the lighter color yellow
-set the opacity to the layer till you have what you need

hope that was helpful

by **.AA DESIGN.** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:30 am

i think i nailed the colour but how do I gonna do with the ref on The Other car any ideas??

by **GeorgeBatranu** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:17 pm

I suppose there was a car already in the pic before you pasted your chop, so the car that was already in the pic was supposed to have a ref on the car beside it... i see a rear end of a car reffin on that car...and it's white, you shouldn't bother!

by **.AA DESIGN.** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:55 pm

okay so i skip the ref but what do you think of the hue now then??

by **Danyutz** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:57 pm

way better

by **White^Stripe** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:59 pm

Looks just amazing!

by **suzq044** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 9:14 pm

MUCH better, although still a bit yellow. I suggest taking your dark spots (Like the tires 'n shadow) into a separate layer & add a little blue. OR maybe add red to the background image shadows. Might help, might not - I'm just throwing up ideas...

YOUR car is great; it's just the other cars' shading is throwing off the whole pic, because it's much bluer than your pic is.

by **.AA DESIGN.** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 1:12 am

The tires are in separate layers thats the orginal colour but i can try the rest of your tips thx for helping me

by **.AA DESIGN.** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 1:37 pm

UPDATE:

how about now?

by **zzd4nzz** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 1:43 pm

nice! looks a lot better

by **White^Stripe** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 2:22 pm

It looks amazing! You pretty much perfected your chop

Great job!

by **Danyutz** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:13 am

CS+4

Congrats

by **ta2man** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:19 am

Congtatz on your CS.

by **White^Stripe** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:02 am

I knew I wasn't the only one that thought this chop was CS

It is just ridicilous to chop like this to NOT be in CS.

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