Shameless self-promoting. Some of my skins:

Voted for luke. While brandons' editing was stunning, I feel that luke got the theme down better.

Quote from 5tag :

Regarding the brakes: It's no special trick, just some layers and quite some time.

That's what I figured.. I never tried it because I thought it was too much work. But maybe for the next edit..

Quote from TuomasH :

Perhaps
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Here's new one, not best edit, but was bored.

Nicely blended there!

Quote from lukelfs :

You should have hidden the pop-up headlights, and maybe add some depth to the fake ones, but I like the pic otherwise.

Quote from 5tag :

Here is something not so specially edited.

I was waiting for you to post something with the skin Is that supposed to be one of those 3D thingys, or why's there two almost same images? BTW, how do you do the wheelspin so that the brake pads stay still?

Hot damn that is awesome, Keitaro!

Quote from JazzOn :

Ken Block Monster World rally Team Livery Uploaded

Enjoy!

Great work, JazzOn! I'm glad this livery got done.

Thanks again everybody! It was a pity that some talented fellas, like brandons and andro to name few, didn't take part this week.. Just submitted next weeks theme to JO53PHS, but unfortunately can't participate myself.. Well, I can always make something after the competition and send to the edited pics.

Quote from matijapkc :

LoL Just one question. How to make a screenie without the lap number?

Press Shift+F once or twice.

Voted Taavi's, I like his scene the best. The lights and lighting are great, though I have to say Taavi could've added some more shadows (because of the multiple light sources). I feel that AudiBG's edit was the most ambitious, but the more I looked at it, the more mistakes I pointed out, the car being the biggest.

BTW, if I win this, I might not be able to provide a theme for next week, since I'm not around. I'll be home briefly on wednesday, and then I'm off again for the rest of the week or so.

Anyways, thanks for all the votes, guys! Really appreciate it!

Quote from EliteAti :

You maybe havent noticed, but the skinner is 11 years old So dont simplify his skin like that. When i started skinning, hell it was the worst skin i've ever seen. This guy understood some of the basics right on the first try (brushes, synced text and using prokits) with only that age. So to conclude this i say, you suck dude.

Brushes? Well that is pretty basic, yeah. Prokits are great, but there's not much evidence that he used them (blackmask-wise, that is). And ok, synced text is good, but it's still not something to be parading about.
So ok, I might have been a little rough with Markus (hey, I'm a Finn), and I'm sorry 'bout that. But still, the skin (as a skin) is bad. You really can't argue with that.

Quote from xtraction :

Mhm +!

Maybe get some shapes on there, and some logo's... Will look alot better.

And i can tell your not using a sophisticated program such as photshop.. more like paint?

Good luck anyways!

No, I think he is using some sophisticated software, you can tell by the anti-aliased brushwork. Bad skin doesn't always mean bad software. And yes, the skin is bad. I mean, it's just red with some text on.

Yes, you can download your skins from LFSW. Obviously not the 2048 ones, but in 1024 resolution.

Quote from TuomasH :

Meh

Quote from brandons48 :

Though i'd drop this one in here

Very nice edits, both of you!

Already finished: http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=1346618#post1346618

It's not cool to post pics of .vob mods on the forums. The first pic's nice, though.

Quote from jrd.racer :

Nice man and i agree about the lights. Maybe add some blur...i dunno.

Quote from Timo1992 :

Wow great one:lovies3d:

Thanks, fellas! Updated it a bit, added the blur and a hint of color.

Quote from beefyman666 :

The only thing letting this edit down is the lens flare on the flood lights. Try to make those look better and you'd have a winner.

Thanks. Any tips on that? I did those lights from scratch, and I too thought that they didn't look right, but dunno how to improve them.

Well, I guess I'll take a shot at this. My first Photomode comp, too.. Didn't come out as good as I envisioned it, but then again, I guess it never does

edit: Tweaked the lights a bit. I think it looks better now.




preview - full

Last edited by macsy, Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:20. Reason : Updated the pic

Wow, that's a whole lotta picture there Flame! Nice one. At least I couldn't tell where one pic ends and another starts.

Quote from TuomasH :

Thats other failed thing

You need to cut the wheels from a pic where the wheel is (almost) in the same angle as in the raw pic. Something like this: http://www.japanesesportcars.c ... ruiser-Enkei_Wheels-1.jpg
not from a pic like this:
http://icbmotorsport.com/Wheels3/Used_DC5_Silver_3.jpg

Quote from Silverracer :

Maybe he wants flames on the hood?

No, no, no.. I think he means that arrow-shaped sticker which says 'hot', on the hood pointing the driver.

Ok, I think I'll call this one done. My first FXO, first one with only sponsors found in LFS, and a break from replicas.. I always loved that bug on Boomtown's logo

Quote from LiveForBoobs :

It's not supposed to look realistic, but i wanted it too really look like it was night. A i think i got the colours, shadows and lightning right. What do you think?

I'm diggin'

Quote from MRubio :

my first one

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/8968/desnfoque3.jpg

1 or 2?

Defianetly 1. That second is just a bunch of blur raped with lens flares. The raw shot is the best though, to be honest. It still needs AA, but it has a nice camera angle and a nice skin. Keep practising though, editing takes longer than 10 secs.

@TuomasH
With the 1st pic, try a radial blur (zoom) on the ground instead of a motion blur. Then just normal blur on the background. Should give better results.