Vehicle Essay

This assignment required me to take a photographed vehicle and transform it using symmetry, brushes, and my creativity. After putting a picture of Staples Center as my background and blurring it, I duplicated the layer that had my original car (the blue Nissan 350Z) on it. I used Flip Horizontal and integrated the two parts together to make a symmetrical vehicle. I then took the doors of a white SUV and integrated it into my image, placing them at near the tires. My third change involved creating a layer mask of the two doors of a hippie van and placing them in the center of my car. To embellish the image somewhat, I created a layer mask of the tires of a Ford F-150 and replacing the 350Z's tires with those.

With the gist of it done, the only thing left was to add effects. I took a picture of an antenna and a Dallas Cowboys banner, and combined the two to make it look like a flag. I downloaded a classic rock brush off Brusheezy.com and painted some classic rock images on the doors. Then I grass-brushed the entire top of the car to give it a fur-like effect. I then added Dark Strokes and Fresco texture effects to the doors, as well as Plaster effect on the tires, to give it a more flashy, unique, and surreal look.