Been Working On Something....

[ashrobinson]

Well ive been inspired,

saw this a long time ago, and remembered it other day.

http://www.heathrowe.com/vector.aspx

so heres my version (sorry for awful original picture colours)

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and heres my version, still unfinished, but need to work on the hard reflections and the wheels.

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critique welcomed!!

[Fi.Es.Ta]

I dont mean to be rude but what are you trying to show us?

[ashrobinson]

I dont mean to be rude but what are you trying to show us?

Just thought it would be a good idea to show people the link, I can see from the sigs a few artists are out there.

[Gazjs]

That looks really tricky.

How long did it take?

[ashrobinson]

That looks really tricky.

How long did it take?

Taken about 2 hrs so far, about 50 layers in photoshop. Its actually not that bad. That tutorial is great, showed me how to do it, and im no photoshop pro.

Was out taking pictures as i had put DMB badges on the car, and debadged, and put sills, and alloy pedals, then suddenly remember it as a mate had done it for his alfa spyder.

You should give it a try Gaz. Itll probably come out better then you think.

Ash

[Gazjs]

Is there anywhere I can get the program for free?

[ashrobinson]

Not sure, but ive heard good things about

http://www.gimp.org/

There is a photoshop trial on adobe's site though aswell.

Any version from 9+ will be fine (goes 9, cs1, 2,3,4 ,cs5 which is current)

trial is about 30 days so should be enough.

[cyb]

Ash - nice link worth posting m8 B)

Gimp is a good free programme and if you have nothing else it's certainly worth downloading. Its not the best thing out there but considering the price :) its very usuable

[irononreverse]

Have you tried Illustrator? It's a vector illustration program and can give you the same effect that you've achieved but in a lot less time and using a lot less layers, so you're saving a bit, memory wise, as well as some time.

Could probably get the same look in about... 6 layers, if you keep it to one colour per layer, the grey background could be a 40% black transparency overlaid on top and this would let you bring in the darker red shadows with minimal effort..