request for chopping rims on car is getting kinda old so i figure i would show people how to do it on their own . its easier than you may think.
Getting Started:
get a pretty good size picture of your car. by good size i mean something that is big enough to work with and something with a somewhat high resolution. basically the higher the resolution, the better the quality of the picture. you also need to get a picture of a donor wheel. some things to remember when choosing your wheel
- it is probly more important to get a wheel with a high resolution because you will most likely need to resize it. in photoshop when you decrease the size of an image, the quality doesnt change a lot but if you make an image bigger it gets pixelated and wont look clear, especially when compared to the picture of your car.
- try to get a wheel that is at the same angle as your car. though you can adjust the perspective in photoshop, it is just easier to get a picture that is at the same angle.
here are the main tools you will be using for this project

and of course the arrow.


Step 1

here we have a nice car that was built by jonas. im not feelin the rszr's so im gonna slap some rota ****...*slipstreams on it.

notice when viewing both images at 100% the wheel is larger which will allow for little or no quality loss upon resizing.

Step 2
its kina hard to see on this screen shot but here are a couple ways you can get a precise selection of your wheel.
1. using the selection toolb - if its not already set to cricle marquee, do so by clicking and holding on the selection tool and you will see a few different selection methods. heres some easy tips for the circle selection tool. hold down -
<u>shift</u>- sizes the cirlce selection proportionately - meaning the selection will be a perfect circle
<u>alt or option on a mac</u> - draws the circle from where you first clicked.
once you have made a selection you can move the selection around or use the arrow keys for precise movement
2. using the pen/path tool - in a nutshell you click to make points and you can adjust handles to create the shape you want. this is a good tool if you decide to change the color of your car but i will get to that some other day.

there are different pen tools if you just click and hold on the icon, like the selection tool.

Step 3
with the wheel selected i used the arrow to to drag it onto the picture of the car. this will create a new layer of just the wheel. u can either drag another wheel onto the car picture or duplicate the existing wheel layer by dragging the wheel layer to the new layer icon.using the <u>Free Transform</u> tool which is located under the edit menu ( ctrl + T , or comand + T on mac ). you have to be using the arrow (to the right of the seletion tool) in order for you to use free transform. once you do that you will notice boxes on the corner of the wheel

you click on the sides or corner to adjust the size. once again the <u>shift</u> key resizes in proportion.
if your wheel isnt exactly the same perspective as the car there are different options you can use such as rotate, skew, distort, and perspective. my best advice on this is to just mess around with them to get the effect that you want.

Step 4
after i get the wheel placed how i want, i like to adjust the brightness of it to match the lighting of the car picture. if you just want a quck chop to see how a wheel looks on your car you can bypass this step. there are a couple ways you can do this
1. Image -&gt; Adjustments -&gt; Brightness/Contrast
2. Image -&gt; Adjustments -&gt; Levels
Levels is a little more advance but that is what i chose because you have more control. you can adjust the highlights, shadows, and midtones.

for both Brightness/Contrast and Levels adjusments, just play around with the sliders to get it how you want it.

now you are done and you dont have to post request on message boards that no one wants to do anywase

before:

after:


special thanks to kj and jonas for the pic and letting me deface the not only all rare but jdm sunshine

 

Nice job.

 

nice job
but i do it in a totaly different way.

 

pretty good write up.

 

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Came out pretty damn n0ice

 

Wow.... nice write up.....thanks!

 

cant wait to try

 

yea man, that was a big help, thanx

 

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but i do it in a totaly different way. </TD></TR></TABLE>

care to share some info? the more ways you know how to do something, the better

 

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care to share some info? the more ways you know how to do something, the better</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

after trying your method, i am still confused to the prog. i open it up and just stare and then close it. its pretty imtimidating to look at. i just wanna know how to take something that i select from one pictire to another and even one pic to the same pic to another part of the same pic. damn.

 

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once you select something you can do copy (ctrl c ) and paste (ctrl v) onto the other picture. if you want to drag a selection you have to use the arrow that is next to the selection tool

 

dang, thanks for the tips

 

nice write up..

mac's

 

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Want us to chew your food too?

 

what i want to see is the cartoond pic you have on the backround?... looks liek illistrator.. did you do it?..

 

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yeah i did it in freehand 9 but you cand do it in illustrator or photoshop but was a design final for school and i was supposed to use a vector program. i just used the pen tool to block out all of the different value changes and fill the shapes with color. its pretty simple but time consuming.

 

yeah it is very time consuming... i know this becuase i have had to do my face... and oh god.. try that... use vector... and do ur face... 213124392894 different color zones.. hot spots.. etc.. good luck with the hair.. =] .. i would post pic but its on my other comp..