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Pimp My Ride Car Effects
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By Art-D !
Published on 03/21/2007
 
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Learn how to make the Pimp My Ride Effects style for your car.

Pimp My Ride Car Effects - Part 1
Learn how to make the Pimp My Ride Effects style for your car. Start tuning the shown car.

Select a photo with 1024x768 px and 72 dpi.

Pimp My Ride Car Effects

The next instrument Pimp My Ride Car Effects may be helpful in representing the front bumper.

Pimp My Ride Car Effects

Click on the right mouse?s button inside the marked zone and make a copy of this layer. Click one more time on the same button on the copy and apply Free Transform option to lengthen the picture. On the junction zone we should apply the eraser instrument.

Pimp My Ride Car Effects 


Pimp My Ride Car Effects

Select the earlier used instrument Pimp My Ride Car Effects and mark out the back bumper.

Pimp My Ride Car Effects 


Pimp My Ride Car Effects - Part 2
Click on the right mouse?s button inside the marked zone and make a copy of the layer. Apply the same Free Transform on the copy to lengthen the picture on the bottom. The junction zone should be corrected with the eraser also.

Pimp My Ride Car Effects

Pimp My Ride Car Effects

Start painting the car in a new way, using the instrument Pimp My Ride Car Effects

Pimp My Ride Car Effects

Fill 0% on the layers. Click on this element  Pimp My Ride Car Effects

Blending Options-Gradient Overlay

Pimp My Ride Car Effects

Gradient?s parameters:

Pimp My Ride Car Effects 


Pimp My Ride Car Effects - Part 3
Mark out the next shown elements, having this instrument Pimp My Ride Car Effects , the same way we did with the bumpers.

Pimp My Ride Car Effects

Click on the right mouse?s button inside the marked zone and make a copy of this layer. Click on the same right mouse?s button inside the copy and apply Free Transform option to enlarge the size of the wheel.

Pimp My Ride Car Effects

Start processing the same way the front wheel.

Pimp My Ride Car Effects

Now we should take a brush with blurred edges and grey color and apply it on the neon?s place on the car. Everything that is unnecessary we should erase it with the usual instrument applied in these cases. Fill 59% on the layers.

Pimp My Ride Car Effects

Paint in black color the windows and the back lamps.

Pimp My Ride Car Effects 


Pimp My Ride Car Effects - Part 4
Select again the brush with blurred edges and the color #a186be and paint the car?s upper body.

Pimp My Ride Car Effects

Choose for the layers the Hue option.

Pimp My Ride Car Effects

Make the next inscription on the windows, keeping the demands from the table.

Pimp My Ride Car Effects

Pimp My Ride Car Effects 


Pimp My Ride Car Effects - Part 5
The front zone should be painted with a different color, selecting this instrument Pimp My Ride Car Effects . Represent also a flame?s silhouette on the same part of the car, which color is #ff0000.

Pimp My Ride Car Effects 


Pimp My Ride Car Effects

Keep the Hue option on the layers.

Pimp My Ride Car Effects

The plates on the wings and on the doors, the mirrors and the back spoiler should have this color #7b7b7b.

Pimp My Ride Car Effects 


Pimp My Ride Car Effects - Final
Don?t forget to change the Normal layer?s type on Hue.

Pimp My Ride Car Effects

The final result!

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