This guide was made for entry: Racecar In Contest: violin
Original image
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I started off by masking out the part of the source image that I no longer wanted
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I rotated the this part of the violin and cut out a space for the wheels and the under part of the car.
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In this step I added the wheels from the image I found at Morguefil.com
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In this step I used the burn tool to add some shadows to the car creating a bit of depth.
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Here I added some vents to the car. I did this using the pen tool and a black fill.
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In this step I added a background using the gradient tool. I also used the burn tool a bit more to add more depth to the car.
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I used the elliptical marquee too to create a white circle for the number 8. After the circle was created I selected the body of the car and then selected the inverse and hit delete on the circle layer so the white circle you fit the body of the car. I then added a blue stroke inside the circle using the blending options.
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I used the pen tool here to create the flames. I made the flames fit the body using the same technique used for the white circle.
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Here I simply set the flame layer and the white circle layer's blending options to overlay.
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In this step I used the pen tool and a stroke path to create the doors and the hood of the car.
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I created fenders in this step by using the pen too to create a crecent shape to fit around the wheel I fill this shape with white and set it to overlay using the blending options.
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I used the dodge tool in this step to creat a highlight on the top of the car to make it pop more.
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In this step I used the pen tool to create a headlight and a tail light.
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I simply went into the blending options of the taillight and gave it an inner shadow and a pattern overlay which was set to overlay to give the tail light some texture. I also select the headlight and contracted the selection by 1 pixel and filled the selection with a white to nothing gradient. I then gave the gradient layer a pattern overlay set to overlay.
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Here I used the pen tool to draw the seat, the steering wheel, the steering column, and the place where the odometer goes. Each piece was its own separate layer.
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I then used the dodge tool to create highlight on each one of the layers created in the previous step. I also gave each layer a pattern overlay to give them some texture. I did this to give each layer some depth and make them feel as though they belonged in the image.
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In this step I simple added a shadow beneath the car and also a reflection.