Quote from only.one.RydeR :

@ ChilliFan

Compare the result of your original (amazing) edit with something like this:

Select both wheels and copy to a new layer. Transform (skew if necessary) both wheels so that they are near-perfect circle. Apply radial blur. Stretch back to original size..

I can't do it right now 'coz the PC's bust and I'm using a laptop with no PS.

Thing is, that's exactly how I do blur normally and it's what I used on that edit. Maybe too small an amount though, I used 4 I think.

Timelapse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eElAd-QYEQQ

I'm curious about the wheel blur too. It doesn't look right but I can't tell why, I think maybe the face of the tyre is standing out a bit much.

An experiment in reflections. All the lighting on the car is hand-drawn.

Original:


Edited:


I made a timelapse video of this edit too, which is kinda cool to watch.

Quote from mogetti :

This image looks like an 95' renault laguna... the 98' laguna is the nescafe 37.

Actually none of these are the '98 Laguna.

The one the OP is making is the '97 one, the picture posted above is the '99 one.

1998 Laguna was this:

Each one of this guy's posts gets more retarded, it's fantastic.

Oh and this as well, a little-known song about Indycar racing

Mark Knopfler - Speedway at Nazareth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWo-51v-SFA

Nobody mentioned Red Barchetta yet? A Rush classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAvQSkK8Z8U

Quote from 5-6-ACE :

Awesome edit Chili, Can I ask you how you did the spray effect off the tires?

It looks really good...

Various brush work. I use a Wacom tablet which is great for doing things like that by hand, just use the brush tool and the smudge tool for the details. Then play around with extra layers and different opacity settings.

And thanks JJ72 for explaining the various reasons for the details. You said it all in far less words than I'd have been able to.

Results of another boring morning:

Original:


Edited:

Full size (1680 x 1050): http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/1489/xrrblackwoodrain.jpg

About 4 hours of work in total, all drawn in Photoshop, reflections remade by hand as well.

Quote from logitekg25 :

ever notice how nobody ever makes an edit of it drizzling?

I dunno, this is kinda drizzly (is that a word?).

Quote from JJ72 :

There's no trick, you just research on real photos and try to replicate everything in Photoshop?

This is the best advice for someone who wants to make realistic looking pictures.

I'd also add: Find a picture you like, take a screenshot from a similar angle and area in LFS, look at the differences and draw them in.

Quote from BlueFlame :

Somebody who either A) Doesn't want to die. B) Doesn't want to kill anyone else, and C) Someone who has a brain.

Are you taking me seriously or just trying to kill the joke?

Thanks for the tip about the throttle body, getting the car serviced this week and will make sure to find out if that's the problem.

Quote from BlueFlame :

Stop buying Halfords brakepads then.

Who cares about safety when you can get intermittent stopping power for less than a tenner!

I love my car. It's got its faults (brakes have failed twice now, they're going off again at the moment, and the accelerator controls itself at low revs) but I still think it's awesome.

Quote from manneF1 :

Why you want Twitter as sponsor?

What a helpful comment.

Anyway, I think this is a great looking skin, surprised nobody's commented on it. I think you should make the clouds on the bottom stand out more, either by making the main colour a brighter blue or by adding a drop shadow or something behind them.

Also you should probably move the word cloud so that the word "media" doesn't get stretched on the car body. It's the word that stands out the most on the car and draws the eye towards it, so having it deformed like that just looks off.

Good work though, keep it up!

Quote from IlGuercio :

What?
How come so many people KNOW what the devs will do?

Quote from UnknownMaster21 :

I think that

Also it was a joke anyway.

Quote from Highsider9 :

I can't rememberthe Drivers Name from the Top of my Head. But i remember He didn't have any brakes.

Driver's name is Nico Bastian.

Going through my old bike tapes tonight I found this and uploaded it to YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8aAGiE0arw

Onboard with Alan Patterson on his 250cc bike at the 1997 North West 200. If you ever wanted to see a display of incredible bravery, this is it. Road racers are the toughest racers out there.

Quote from JJ72 :

If you just cut the car out and put it in a new layer, when you blur the background there's a slight soft black edge where the blur carried over some of the void. (dunno if that make sense to you.)

What you can do is use a transparent background. So you have a transparent layer, the layer without the car, and the layer that is just the car. When you blur the layer the car was cut from you can then duplicate that layer a few times and it fills in the transparent area that the blur carries over.

Quote from Sponge :

Any chance of a .zip/.rar file with all skins in the future?

Very nice skins btw

I tried, it came to 8 MB and the limit's only 2 for zip files. Shame, would save a load of clicking!

Looks like this is the end for the Kyoto oval, assuming Rockingham's oval can be taken flat out in the BF1.

I propose we stick with this theme regardless of who wins last weeks' competition, because sunset is a nice vague idea usually condusive to a lot of entries.

Quote from Deutschland2007 :

Nice skins chilifan, but you also could have uploaded all 12 attachments in one post. Just upload the first 4 and then the next 4 and so on. You may edit your posts and remove two of them.

Wait, really? I thought 4 was the limit. Shows how much I know about this forum.

Yeah so I've done that now, thanks for the heads up on the attachment limit.

Last edited by ChiliFan, Sun 20 Sep 2009, 15:43.

Quote from Deutschland2007 :

Would be glad if you did.

XRR skins here: http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=1265906#post1265906

Also I spent some time re-making that pic as it originally was. So here's the 1280 x 768 version, click the preview for full-res.



I guess you can also play Spot The Difference with this pic and the one I posted earlier!

A little project I'm working on, high-res versions of all the default GTR skins and a few more to make a full grid. Here are the XRR ones. You can probably recognise the default ones, they've all been completely re-made in 2048 x 2048, not just resized. The Injext #15 one was removed from LFS for some reason, you can see it on the LFS homepage's screenshot section. The others are my own ideas, hence they aren't as good.

Last edited by ChiliFan, Sun 20 Sep 2009, 15:41.