Way to go Tony! Get in there and play is the way to become really proficient. I like that you took time to put shadows on the wheels and such to make it real. Photo-chopping is one of my favorite mediums because its so fast.
One thing I've seen a couple of times here and on yours as well, is simply using the same wheel for the front and rear. That may have been your intentions, but what if you wanted a deeper offset out back? Here's how I do it...
First select a wheel from the net. Then try to find a photo of a deep offset wheel at a similar angle. Simply cut the center of the front wheel out by using the elipse selection tool and use select/transform selection to get the shape right. Then either copy/paste (control c/v) it, or if you're working on a different open file using the arrow "move" tool click and drag it onto the other file with the deep wheel. It will now be on a new layer and easily modified. Crank down the opacity on the layers pallete so you can see the shape of the wheel below it. On the new center layer press edit/free transform (or control-T) to squeeze and stretch as necessary to make it look like it fits. On this one I actually erased some of the new center on the left side to make it look it was hidden by the deep rim. On a new layer I added a slight shadow and then flattened the image. Easy as that, took about 3 minutes. I used this method on this quickie photo-chop I did to show a friend how I do what I do. Hope this helps! See below...
Last edited by SRD Art; 11-06-2008 at 04:08 PM.
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