A Work in Progress: Beetlemania



This guide was made for entry:
Beetlemania
In Contest:
tropical beetle


Original image


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Crop out car.

Creation of Beetlemania: Step 1
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Cropped out beetles carapace and expanded size enough to cover car. Touched up some obvious spots.

Creation of Beetlemania: Step 2
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Reduce opacity of carapace and line up over car.

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Apply a mask over carapace area. Start painting areas that are not red with black brush fix mistakes with white brush.

Creation of Beetlemania: Step 4
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After masking out most red areas and reducing carapace opacity.

Creation of Beetlemania: Step 5
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Lowered saturation of the cropped car so that red reflections on chrome etc are muted.

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Make pincer design from original beetle.

Creation of Beetlemania: Step 7
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Tweaked pincer, removed spots, and enhanced curves.

Creation of Beetlemania: Step 8
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Pincer placed on hood with reduced opacity. Warped some for perspective.

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Crop out windshield and place on a top layer.

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Place building and sky picture from second source. Crop and transform over car window.

Creation of Beetlemania: Step 11
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Warp windshield pic then clip it to the windshield layer. Adjust with transform tools so it is warped some.

Creation of Beetlemania: Step 12
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Masked in windshield wipers and lowered opacity of windshield some.

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Created leg decal.

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Leg decals placed on hood and blended with carapace. Final touch-ups adjustment layers and Camera Raw.

Creation of Beetlemania: Step 15
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Final result

Creation of Beetlemania: Final Result

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