I know a tutorial that shows how todo this:
http://www.digimods.co.uk/tutorials/chromepaint.htm
Enjoy!
Who wants to buy my Audi A8??
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The first Chrome car maybe, but surely the Audi was the first to have the shiny finish with the all Aluminium A8 in 1994bass mekanik wrote:im not sure to be honest as im not a photoshop guru myself! I cant use it- but i do have an eye for detail an know a chop when i see one!AshLeMacq wrote:But how do the reflections show up so clearly and in the right colour if the base colour is being changed?
I've seen some amazing things with PS but I'd love to know how that works.
this one however is REAL- was the first car ever to be made in full chrome:
one of the mercedes answers to the above (they made about four different ones: coupe,saloon,estate and convertible versions)- also real:
and the bmw made by some guy with WAY too much money in states:
can you tell the difference between the reals and the fakes?
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Well as it's got some Sheihk-type guy standing next to it, it's probably real and the plaything of some innumerably rich oil baron. Likely got a monstrous engine hidden under there, too.
He doesn't have to worry about keeping it clean and removing the scratches..... he has a man to do that for him.
Can't see what's inconsistent about the mirror reflection myself. As seen with caustic curves in water etc, even with a perfectly reflective surface, a set of curved surfaces like that can produce areas that are still completely in shadow (e.g. the sun is such that the dark patch actually is totally shaded and hasn't got light reflecting in from any other part of the car)
and yes...... having done several bits of messing about with reality in photoshop (ok, paintshop) before .... it would have to be black, or a very well-shined silver/grey. Trying to alter hues in a convincing fashion is a fool's game, damn near impossible unless it's quite a simple flat-colour swap, e.g. making a car with matte, unpolished blue paint look red. And even that tends to go t*ts up, anyway!
MysteryBoy, i'd have that, but on the condition you sort out the insurance, tax, service it beforehand, and provide a full tank of petrol and several filled spare cans. And no balding tyres neither!
This comes from seeing a "win this DB9!" competition stand in birmingham airport... all nice and shiny, car's there for you to perv over, to lure you in to paying a "small" entry fee for your raffle ticket... after some chatting to the guy on the stand, who seemed familiar from school, and convincing him that there's no way we could afford a ticket or fall for paying one, he let slip that none of the above were included, except the brand-new tyres of course. Most of the people who win the competition end up keeping the car on the driveway for a couple weeks to show it off, then sell it on to someone else, or back to the manufacturer ... at a severe discount either way of course. All the same, they walk away with an easy hundred grand, someone else gets a cheap car (or the manufacturer gains a third of the sale price again for an undriven model), and they don't have to worry about astronomical insurance, tax, servicing and fuelling costs. Generally, if you can't afford to buy one of these luxury boats outright, you likely can't afford to run one - just the same as that MegaYacht...
He doesn't have to worry about keeping it clean and removing the scratches..... he has a man to do that for him.
Can't see what's inconsistent about the mirror reflection myself. As seen with caustic curves in water etc, even with a perfectly reflective surface, a set of curved surfaces like that can produce areas that are still completely in shadow (e.g. the sun is such that the dark patch actually is totally shaded and hasn't got light reflecting in from any other part of the car)
and yes...... having done several bits of messing about with reality in photoshop (ok, paintshop) before .... it would have to be black, or a very well-shined silver/grey. Trying to alter hues in a convincing fashion is a fool's game, damn near impossible unless it's quite a simple flat-colour swap, e.g. making a car with matte, unpolished blue paint look red. And even that tends to go t*ts up, anyway!
MysteryBoy, i'd have that, but on the condition you sort out the insurance, tax, service it beforehand, and provide a full tank of petrol and several filled spare cans. And no balding tyres neither!
This comes from seeing a "win this DB9!" competition stand in birmingham airport... all nice and shiny, car's there for you to perv over, to lure you in to paying a "small" entry fee for your raffle ticket... after some chatting to the guy on the stand, who seemed familiar from school, and convincing him that there's no way we could afford a ticket or fall for paying one, he let slip that none of the above were included, except the brand-new tyres of course. Most of the people who win the competition end up keeping the car on the driveway for a couple weeks to show it off, then sell it on to someone else, or back to the manufacturer ... at a severe discount either way of course. All the same, they walk away with an easy hundred grand, someone else gets a cheap car (or the manufacturer gains a third of the sale price again for an undriven model), and they don't have to worry about astronomical insurance, tax, servicing and fuelling costs. Generally, if you can't afford to buy one of these luxury boats outright, you likely can't afford to run one - just the same as that MegaYacht...