Beginner Tut: Chop Your Roof!

OooGummies · 03-19-2007, 03:48 AM

Here's an easy to follow tutorial that I made myself.
The point is to chop your car's roof to give it a new sporty/dub look.

Step 1:
Take a car you would like the roof to be chopped, for this one, I chose the C55 AMG

Step 2:
Take the Rectangular Marquee Tool and select the whole top half of the car/picture.

Step 3:
Press Ctrl+T to go into Free Transform, then take the little box on the top of the picture and drag down.

Step 4:
Press ENTER to confirm then press Ctrl+D to deselect the selection

Step 5:
There's a lot of white space still left on the top, let's crop it so we're only left with the picture. Select the Crop tool and select the picture.

Edit:

Here's a tip from Omicron:

Quote:

Originally Posted by OmicroN

It's a way of doing it, it's not always the best way, but its quick and affective. If you want to keep the same resolution as before, after you're done using the free transform to squish the roof down, select the top of the image down to just above the roof. Use your free transform, and then stretch the top back up to the top of the image.

jcrazyjj · 03-19-2007, 12:55 PM

wow!, i never thought of doing it that way. hahaha. nice tut

essex boy luke · 03-19-2007, 02:23 PM

yer man nice tut

thanks might use that

OooGummies · 03-19-2007, 05:37 PM

Thanks guys, you think this will get stickied? Probably not

OooGummies · 03-20-2007, 05:30 PM

Anymore comments? This is my first tutorial and I'm planning to make more

OmicroN · 03-20-2007, 06:02 PM

It's a way of doing it, it's not always the best way, but its quick and affective. If you want to keep the same resolution as before, after you're done using the free transform to squish the roof down, select the top of the image down to just above the roof. Use your free transform, and then stretch the top back up to the top of the image.

Easy stuff, I guess I can sticky this tut.

OooGummies · 03-20-2007, 06:58 PM

Oh my god I think I'm gonna faint! My first sticky!! *faints*

Really appreciate it OmicroN.

PSDavinci · 03-21-2007, 11:26 AM

Nice tute bro. Its a pretty slick method. I would just add that depending on the picture, it might be better to select, copy and paste selection to a new layer before compressing. Then if you decided that something ended up too distorted (i.e. - mirror, person inside car, background etc.) you could very easily cut and paste as needed, having retained the original image.