Why do people always follow up offensive comments by saying "no offense". Here is a life tip, if you feel the need to say "no offense" at the end of a sentence, then it was offensive and if you didn't intend to cause offense you should of worded it differently.
I do agree though, the effect is not wrong, its just a little bit over the top and needs to be slightly toned down.
For full size click *here* (1680*1050, interlaced PNG, 3.42 MB)
[4 hours of work- forgot to duplicate the reflection layer before applying ripple, and only noticed that when it was already too late :< , comments&criticism highly appreciated]
@bash0r
By optimizing do you meen that it needs more rain or some fiddling with the oppacity levels? I had one more layer with rain, but decided not to use it. Yeah, the mirroring is quite strong, but i had to do it that way as the reflection is lacking the undertray of the car , so undert the slpashes I blacked out the whole thing ( see attachment - it looked better without the ripple effect, but as I mentioned, forgot to save the original layer -.- ).
@JJ72
Why not? BMP would've been a lot bigger, and I didn't want to loose quality because of the JPG compression. About the spray - so far I haven't been able to make a more realistic water splash - It's quite difficult making it look like 3D whereas the image is just 2D ( adding depth to it is the problem, imho ).
Thanks for the comments!
@JO53PHS
That's quite nice :O ( the reflection of the wheels isn't spinning )
Due to a minor increase in my photoshop skill, my pic is not my final entry .
Whilst my Photoshop skill was increasing, I discovered that the UFR's windscreen wipers are too long to fit on the windscreen when in the vertical position