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Magnus · 17th May 2007, 08:27

Adobe Tutorial: Car Branding
by Zaid

If you’d like to groom your car in any photo from your image collection, you should create a visual on the computer first before spending heaps on printed sticky vinyl. Actually it is rather nice to try wrap any photos on your airplane picture, car, Burj Al-Arab perhaps just for the sake of experimenting. We shall use a Photoshop filter called Displace that needs some preparations such as a source grey and blurred image before applying it on our destination image. Also the filter need an exaggerated highlight and shadowy areas for distortion while neutral grey will not distort.

STEP ONE: Open beetle.psd document (http://www.emiratesmac.com/newslette...07/beetle.psd). From Image menu, choose Duplicate to duplicate current image. Convert new copied image into Grey color mode, Image > Mode > Grayscale then click on Discard button when prompted.

STEP TWO: From Image menu choose Adjustments > Levels, drag Highlight, Shadow, and midtone slider inward to exaggerate details or enter amount numbers as shown in the figure.

STEP THREE: Apply some blur, under Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur, apply 2 pixels blur. then save the image under the name “Source Beetle” and make sure the Format is Photoshop, then close this blurry image.

STEP FOUR: Display back our original document Grey_Beetle, then open flowers.psd (http://www.emiratesmac.com/newslette...7/flowers.psd), use the move tool to drag flowers layer into the Beetle document while holding the Shift key as this will insure the flowers image is centered over the car, if it didn’t work, just visually move the flowers layer to cover the car completely.

STEP FIVE: Highlight the Flowers layer by clicking on it once, then from Filter menu, choose Distort > Displace. Change Horizontal and Vertical Scaling to 5, select Wrap Around under Undefined Areas within Displace filter dialogue window then click OK to prompt the Open window, locate the blurry image we named “Source Beetle” and hit Open button. You should see the flowers image has distortions already.

STEP SIX: Make sure the Flowers layer is targeted, choose Overlay from the Blending drop down list in the Layers Palette, and reduce opacity to 60%. You are able to see now how the flowers are following the contour lines of the Beetle.

STEP SEVEN: Duplicate Flowers layer by dragging it to the New Layer button at the bottom of the Layers Palette or from the Layer Menu select Duplicate Layer. Apply Hard Light from the blending modes list, and adjust opacity of this copied Flowers layer to be 85%.

STEP EIGHT: In order to clean up unwanted flowers from the windows, lights and tyers, I have saved a selection for you to use. Target each of the Flowers layers individually, and from the menu Select > Load Selection, and choose Channel: Beetle, then click OK. Once you see moving dots that looks like marching ants hit the backspace/delete button on your keyboard. Don’t forget to repeat this step for both Flowers layers. If you didn’t like the result because of too much distortion, you could always repeat Apply the Displace filter and play with the amount in each Horizontal and Vertical boxes.

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Magnus Administrator Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Dubai Posts: 8,328	Adobe Tutorial: Car Branding Adobe Tutorial: Car Branding by Zaid If you’d like to groom your car in any photo from your image collection, you should create a visual on the computer first before spending heaps on printed sticky vinyl. Actually it is rather nice to try wrap any photos on your airplane picture, car, Burj Al-Arab perhaps just for the sake of experimenting. We shall use a Photoshop filter called Displace that needs some preparations such as a source grey and blurred image before applying it on our destination image. Also the filter need an exaggerated highlight and shadowy areas for distortion while neutral grey will not distort. STEP ONE: Open beetle.psd document (http://www.emiratesmac.com/newslette...07/beetle.psd). From Image menu, choose Duplicate to duplicate current image. Convert new copied image into Grey color mode, Image > Mode > Grayscale then click on Discard button when prompted. STEP TWO: From Image menu choose Adjustments > Levels, drag Highlight, Shadow, and midtone slider inward to exaggerate details or enter amount numbers as shown in the figure. STEP THREE: Apply some blur, under Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur, apply 2 pixels blur. then save the image under the name “Source Beetle” and make sure the Format is Photoshop, then close this blurry image. STEP FOUR: Display back our original document Grey_Beetle, then open flowers.psd (http://www.emiratesmac.com/newslette...7/flowers.psd), use the move tool to drag flowers layer into the Beetle document while holding the Shift key as this will insure the flowers image is centered over the car, if it didn’t work, just visually move the flowers layer to cover the car completely. STEP FIVE: Highlight the Flowers layer by clicking on it once, then from Filter menu, choose Distort > Displace. Change Horizontal and Vertical Scaling to 5, select Wrap Around under Undefined Areas within Displace filter dialogue window then click OK to prompt the Open window, locate the blurry image we named “Source Beetle” and hit Open button. You should see the flowers image has distortions already. STEP SIX: Make sure the Flowers layer is targeted, choose Overlay from the Blending drop down list in the Layers Palette, and reduce opacity to 60%. You are able to see now how the flowers are following the contour lines of the Beetle. STEP SEVEN: Duplicate Flowers layer by dragging it to the New Layer button at the bottom of the Layers Palette or from the Layer Menu select Duplicate Layer. Apply Hard Light from the blending modes list, and adjust opacity of this copied Flowers layer to be 85%. STEP EIGHT: In order to clean up unwanted flowers from the windows, lights and tyers, I have saved a selection for you to use. Target each of the Flowers layers individually, and from the menu Select > Load Selection, and choose Channel: Beetle, then click OK. Once you see moving dots that looks like marching ants hit the backspace/delete button on your keyboard. Don’t forget to repeat this step for both Flowers layers. If you didn’t like the result because of too much distortion, you could always repeat Apply the Displace filter and play with the amount in each Horizontal and Vertical boxes.