Use Photoshop to Beat Rossi

[Wolf]

Words by V_Senna
Pictures by Wolf

1. right so get your best pic, and find a picture of your favourite GP hero in a picture with roughly the same angle as your (the more similar the angle the better it will look!)

2. now open both pictures in Photoshop, now on the pic of yourself, you need to cut around you and your bike, you'll need the Polygonal Lasso Tool for this (on the toolbar 2nd one down on the left).

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k150/wolfie88/two_pics.jpg

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k150/wolfie88/poly_lasso.jpg

3. To use the tool, simply click and in short steps click all the way around, you'll notice a line following all your clicks until you return to your very first click, once you go all the way round, your image has been cut, now while its still selected, on the toolbar click the top right tool (the Move tool).

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k150/wolfie88/lasso_bunny.jpg

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k150/wolfie88/move_tool.jpg

4. click and drag your bike into the picture of your GP hero, now you need to do 2 things here, adjust the size and the brightness/contrast and sometimes saturation of the colour to match it to the backgrounds, you'll have to play about to get it right.

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k150/wolfie88/moved_bunny.jpg

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k150/wolfie88/adjustments.jpg

5. once you think you've got the resizing and colour adjustment right, sit back abit and make sure it doesnt look out of place as you may have gone over the top with the colour adjust so double check it.

6. file > save as > jpeg, and you've got your very own GP rider arse kicking picture.

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k150/wolfie88/save_as.jpg

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k150/wolfie88/save_as_2.jpg

Finished picture :

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k150/wolfie88/DSCF2648.jpg

Note from Wolf:
Forgive the use of bunnies and not motogp heros, i dont have any good pics to merge of riders so i went with what i thought would be simple :biggrin

as V_Senna proved, such techniques can result in things like this:

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a286/v6auh/millerossi.jpg

Have fun showing everyone milles can beat anything on track without getting out of your seat :thumbup:thumbup:thumbup

[B o B]

That is a brilliant outcome. Love it!

[rsvsteve]

Thats P'kin aint it :dunno

[V_senna]

Thats superb Wolf, thanks for the pm, a picture's worth a thousand words aye ;)

[Sprocker]

Hey nice one Wolf :thumbup i'll try that when i'm at home :thumbup

[Pumpkin]

Thats P'kin aint it :dunno

I wish it was me :laugh

[rsvsteve]

I wish it was me :laugh


:laugh:laugh:laugh:laugh It mite be one day PKIN you never know :thumbup

[V_senna]

Thats me actually.

[Pumpkin]

awesome !! :hail

*jealous* :laugh

[Dolenc]

Had to take the outside line, to outbrake rossi

ps... stoner went into sand after 2 laps more :D

http://www.motosvet.com/tabla/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=132013

[TarkMalbot]

Good work there. I am no good at photoshop though! Any tips how to do it with Microsoft Paint? lol

[Dolenc]

Use the "Free-Form Select" tool (the star-looking like button) and with quite some effort cut the selected image out and past it on the new picture, it wont be as nice as with photoshop but it will do :D

[Dolenc]

Got to love this topic :D

http://www.motosvet.com/tabla/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=132202

[1066RSV]

THAT'S BRILL , VERY IMPRESSIVE:ytiller

[Wolf]

This may be of interest to those who dont have photoshop and dont want to pay for it, there is a FREE program out there which can do many things like photoshop

its called GIMP, yes i know it sounds dirty :jack it stands for GNU image manipulation program, without further adu :
http://www.gimp.org/

It can do alot more than paint, but its also quite a bit more complex but who ever said life was easy??

enjoy :thumbup

[bbstevebb]

Cheers wolf, I'll have to give it ago.

[Dolenc]

Had some spare time.

Took Stoner down 3 laps after :D

http://www.motosvet.com/album/images/2007/680/20090524213326_MotoGpNejc.jpg

[rsvmille]

Rossi signs for Aprilia on a ten year old bike - he's bound to win, it's an ape!!:thumbup
(in my world anyhow, lol)

http://i329.photobucket.com/albums/l366/rsvmille2000/rossi.jpg

spot the deliberate mistake, doh!

[ukmatt]

erm is the can on the wrong side

[rsvmille]

it is a mirror image, all the text is in mirror image

[Pist'nbroke]

Rossi is well off the pace these days, this is my 5 YO daughter about to pass him on my RSV :D

http://www.mikerj.clara.net/bike/rsv1000r/rosi_too_slow.jpg

[Wolf]

Thats superb Wolf, many thanks for the pm, a picture's worth a thousand key phrases aye

ok.. i did not pm you, you stole other peoples posts and your english is horrible, you are also a spammer

and i have another stunning revelation: you are not human!!

seriously you need to find out who set the spambot loose on the forum...

[Dolenc]

I dont want to pe a pain in the ass... Your daughter looks fast, but getting past Haga still isnt just there to get past Rossi :D

[lmsm76]

Your left turn signal was not working?? Pay attention next time!

[cburgess594]

Trying to fool myself :pirate But sometimes it feels good....NO! Better :thumbup