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Picture Tuning

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The Stocks

For the base of the pimped out car, I'm gonna use 2 cars I both kinda like. I couldn't find a good stock of a Rolls-Royce Phantom, so I'm gonna use 2 Chryslers.

I have no idea what kind of Chryslers they are, I just got them off the website under the catagory "Chrysler". I'm going to use the bumper from the second stock and place it on the first stock.

We will also be needing stocks of a hood-scoop, rims and maybe some graphics to put on the side.

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The Bumper

What you need to do first is make sure that both cars are the same size. Do this by copying both stocks into one document. Then grab our Pen-Tool.

Cut out the bumper of the second stock and place it over the other car. Now of course, you may need to tweek it a littlem so use Ctrl+T to rotate it and make it a little smaller.

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As you can see, there are some parts overlapping the open area of the tires and the height of the hood is a bit too much. Since the copy-pasted bumper is placed on a new layer, simply erase those parts using the Pen-Tool.

Next up, is the actual Eraser. Grab a soft Eraser-brush and make sure the top of the pasted hood flows into the original stock nicely. Also do the side of the bumper above the wheel. Notice that the original bodykit has a darker line going across the wheel-opening. Create a black shape to make the bumper in the same color to follow this.

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Hood Scoop

Every cool muscle-car needs a hood-scoop. And every other pimped car needs one as well. Okay I'm just making this up. But are there really pimping-rules? I think not. As long as it's over the top and in the same style, it's pimping in my book.

So we are gonna need a stock of a hood-scoop. Ofcourse it's too big, the wrong color and off center. That's why you just need to cut it out and make sure it's the right size. Use Ctrl+T to make it smaller and position it the way you want.

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Go to Edit > Transform > Distort to transform it even better. This way, you can grab the individual anchor-points and drag them to the desired shape. Much handier and easier then the regular scaling.

Position it in the middle and take out the Eraser or the Smudge Tool and make the edges of the scoop-image a little softer to they seem to fade in.

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Set the blending-mode of the layer to Multiply and see how it will instantly merge with the car. Though, the shine on top is gone.

That's why you should grab a small soft brush and use White to brush some lightning on a layer behind the Hood-Scoop, but in front of the car. Set the blending-mode to Overlay or just lower the opacity to 10-20.

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