Saab Bathurst S Edition

[Jonnie]

Hi all,

I'm new on here and didn't even know this forum existed till last night after someone telling me about it since digimods went down I needed to find another site and this one looks pretty good.

I started using Photoshop CS3 last year, just for forum signatures and then got into it more and more when I got asked to change wheels etc on cars and never looked back and always learning new stuff.

Anyway I have a mate, who is a Saab man through and through and has one of these:

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/markhiggins789/PeteSaab2.jpg

Now recently he has a BIG liking for the Vauxhall VXR8 Bathurst Edition S, like this:

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/markhiggins789/Vauxhall-VXR8_Bathurst_S_2009_800x6.jpg

He asked me to try and shop parts from the VXR8 onto his Saab, and this is what I come up with:

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/markhiggins789/PeteSaab2stage5copy.jpg

Apart from the different coloured calipers and I made abit of a mess with getting rid of the front bumper strip I'm pretty happy with it. I know the wheels look of poor quality and that's because they are! I tried getting some high res pics of the wheels, but couldn't find any of the pics from stationary angles!!

Thanks for looking
Jonnie

[AzZzA]

the wheels are abit flat tbh mate but wow very nice wouldnt mind a tut on how to do that paintwork 5* =D

[Jonnie]

the wheels are abit flat tbh mate but wow very nice wouldnt mind a tut on how to do that paintwork 5* =D

Any ideas of how to make the wheels look less flat?

As regards to the paintwork, do you mean how to get the colour to white from the original?

[AzZzA]

yeah mate and you cant make it look less flat really just a new set of wheels but its fine :)

[mglavina]

Theres a tut. on this site to convert car colors to white or black. Only works with some types of cars though (depends on the original color.

[Jonnie]

Theres a tut. on this site to convert car colors to white or black. Only works with some types of cars though (depends on the original color.

Yeah I did try using that one first, but wasn't really for me so i tried it another way.

Make the selection around the body of the car. Go to Image>Adjustments>Black & White. When you get the black and white box up, don't change any of the sliders, press ok. Then go to Image>Adjustments>Brightness/Contrast. I then moved the sliders as I wanted. I got the best results by setting the Brightness slider all the way up and the Contrast all the way down.

Even then it wasn't perfect so I then went to Image>Adjustments>Levels and then adjusted the sliders to suit, but tbh it wasn't much.

Job done!

[boroboyben]

Loving the colour and stripes, the wheels however, big no, no! Good effort though!