Ok, i found an old thread that crxforum did, but there are no example pics.
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=464592
If someone could be kind enough to teach all us PS noobs how to cartoon our cars, i would be appreciated!

thanks!

 

try
http://www.photoshopchop.com

or here it is

http://photoshopchop.com/forum...bf952

 

Thanks to "check out my 10's" for the link!

Here it is just incase some of you guys want it

http://files.deviantart.com/f/...l.doc

 

wow i can't believe you guys are doing that crap with photoshop...work like that is cut out for Illustrator by far!! nothing but super smooth vector based lines...absolutely beautiful.

 

I work at a design firm here in CA doing work for clients like Neuspeed, Koni, Jackson Racing, etc. I just completed an illustration for a Koni/Stasis Engineering ad going in European Car (March or April 2004 I think). I had 'cartooned' an Audi and was inspired entirely by Honda-Tech and that awesome thread I found about everyone's photoshop skilliez. Check it out! This image is just the background of the ad. Cop the mag when it comes out to see the whole ad:



I never found a how-to, so I had to kind of figure it out on my own =\
Here is what I did:

1). First import in the image you want to cartoon into Illustrator.

2.) Begin with the pen tool and trace all of the 'shades' and panels and anything else you want surrounded by that cool thin black outline. Try to keep all of your shapes with 'filled color' only, no 'outlines'.

3.) Once you are finished, save it, then bring it into Photoshop at a big size. 600x800px, 150 dpi for example (300 dpi if you plan on using it in print ads or brochures).

4.) Create a copy of the layer with your cartooned car, which should appear on top of the original layer, then go to Filters>Stylized>Find Edges. Note you must be in RGB mode; 'Find Edges' will not work in CMYK mode. Now you should have two layers, the top layer should look like a white car with multicolored outlines everywhere, and the bottom layer should be your original illustration.

5.) With the top layer still activated, go to Image>Adjustments>Desaturate. This should turn all those multicolored outlines into Grayscale. You're almost done!

6.) Now in the 'Layers' window (where you can see all your layers) find the pulldown box which has all the layer Blending Options (Normal, Dissolve, Darken, Multiply, etc. etc.). Make sure the top layer (white car with outlines) is still activated, and select the 'Multiply' blending option. You should now be able to see through the white, but still see the black outlines.

7.) You now have your cartooned car! You can take it anywhere from here. You can import the 'outlines' layer to an alpha channel to keep the outlines for later use.


There may be an easier way to do this. Such as the 'trace' function in Flash that finds all the different shades for you, but the shapes weren't coming out as smooth as I wanted them to. So I ended up having to create the individual shapes/shades myself by tracing with the pen tool in Illustrator. But I'm likin' how I do it, it looks clean!!

Hope this helps dude! Now I gotta get back to work.