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Kewl! once I get the text done, I will have a surprise picture for you.

Ok, I'm gonna post an experimental car tutorial here. But I'm not doing the whole car, just the roof for now. If you want a real tutorial, here is a link but it's written for photoshop. http://www.designermart.co.uk/lamborghini_gallardo_photoshop_tutorial.html Experimental car tutorial part one. this is the car we gonna try and make: end product: http://sites.google.com/site/hexrattpdn/tutorialimage/cartutorialpdnrooffinal.jpg 1- Start with a good size canvass,I used my default monitor screen size 1024 x 768. add new layer, call it carguide, make outline of car using any color that is not the color of car. I use blue hex: 0094FF as primary color on pallette. Use brush width: 3. 2- add new layer, call it workingbackground and use paint bucket flood fill with grey color hex:808080. make it the bottom layer of all layers. 3- continue to make outline of windshield, window, door panel, hood, right side hood, and bumper. Make new layers for each outline and name them accordingly. By now, you should have something like this: http://sites.google.com/site/hexrattpdn/tutorialimage/cartutorialpdnallguide.jpg 4- go to carguide layer then add new layer on top of it. Call it carbasecolor and use paint bucket tool floodfill it with default yellow color or hex:FFD800. go back to carguide layer, use magic wand tool and select anywhere outside the car outline then select carbasecolor layer to make it active and hit the delete key. Now you should have this: http://sites.google.com/site/hexrattpdn/tutorialimage/cartutorialpdnyellowimg.jpg 5- painting the roof. I always start from top down. set carbasecolor layer invisible by unchecking the visible box. -go to the roofguide layer and add new layer and call it roof, floodfill with yellow, then use magic wand on roofguide layer anywhere outside of outline (same method as in step 4) and go back to roof layer and hit delete key. -under effects gaussian blur 2, aa assistant 3, duplicate roof layer rename it roofhilitebase. -in roofhilitebase layer, under adjustments, adust brightness to 30 leave contrast at 0. -duplicate roofhilitebase layer,set blending mode of top one to multiply and merge down with other one. gausssian blur 2, aa assistant 3. -then duplicate roofhilitebase layer again and rename it roofhilite this time. -duplicate roofhilite 3 more times and make sure to set blending mode to multiply then merge all roofhilite layers down so you now have only one. -make all layers invisible except the roofhilite layer and use eraser tool with a large size brush about 100 and erase according to image. http://sites.google.com/site/hexrattpdn/tutorialimage/eraseguide.jpg -gaussian blur at 5 and aa assistant at 1. -now merged it down with roofhilitebase layer then add new layer and call it scratch. -use scratch layer to add in white hi-lights on top of roof and black lines around window. Always use scratch layer to add in more details that way if you don't like it, you can just delete it and not ruin the original. Hopefully, you have something like this now: http://sites.google.com/site/hexrattpdn/tutorialimage/cartutorialpdnroofoutline.jpg And with some more tweaking it will have a nice polished look. By adjusting brightness and saturation, try to match the reference color, that's if you want it to be exactly like original. Above, I added door panel, below the hood. I don't like the end result at all. Looks cartoonish.

Oh, I love that car image! I was gonna say it look even more realistic than mine but I read the part that it is stock photo. I bet you can make cars just as good as I can or even better. You have way better art skills than I do. The way I make my cars is the like the old fashion way; I look at the colors as one single color with lighter or darker shades and the primary tools I use are the paint brush, lines/curves, and plugin gausian blur. I love digital canvass better paper one because, when I make a mistake there's undo button unlike paper canvass where I would scrap and start over. This was one of your earlier works, right? I wish I could make text like that, awesome text. I have a used car background in mind I want to make, with those texts on the outside of window. Guess, I'll have start reading the text tutorials next. Keep up the good work!

@Welshblue - A big welcome to you, sir, to my galleria. I have learned a lot from your tutorials. Many thanks. It was your ring tutorial that set me on the right path to creating better art with pdn. It was there that I made my first spacecraft (the gold tie-fighter) use as my avatar. The gold color, of course, was inspired by barbieq25. @chrisco97- Sorry about the blur, I did rush the headlights and blurred them too much. I will redo them later. Ok, agreed, I will begin a car tutorial and the subject reference will be the Lamborghini, as requested by csm725. This way I can terminate a couple of avian lifeforms with a single monolithic projectile or is it kill two birds with one stone. If it will be too long, I will break it down into parts such as doors, hood, bumper, etc...

Tutorial from me? I think I need to have more post and submission before I can write a tutorial according to forum rules. Well, I will start writing tutorials but I won't submit them until I have more artwork in my gallery. My first one will be "how to make tires and rim" using pdn. But my next challenge is to paint War Machine from Iron Man 2. I got this idea from Ash's gallery since he made Iron Man's head. Thank you all for your compliments.

Sorry, I don't have image of the ducks. I made them by making an outline of duck, render clouds, and use smudge to give them ruffle feathers. Then painted in the eyes and bill.

@chrisco97 -yes, I'm making Aston Martin for you but not sure what color you prefer but I always start out with primary color, yellow is my favorite. @barbieq25- didn't really know that you like muscle cars, but I figure anything in yellow or gold would be acceptable. Anyways, the mustangs are a nice series. My brother had one, 1985 though. 1965-1966 seem to be exotic ones. I will have to find a good reference to do those cars justice. sokagirl, thank you for your comment. I made that background for the slice orange and cup tutorial. I don't think I did a good job though in making those ducks appear to be in wet feathers.

Thank you all for you kind words. Barbieq25, I made you a new car, the other one looked cartoonish. You deserved better.

Finished my BumbleBee the car and made gold camaro for barbieq25

Looks really nice, as usual. But is the dragon on the knife handle or some where else, too?

@Barbieq25- Hey, thanks for the advice. I have always work using default setting, but I did noticed my PC was slowing down quite a bit after the 20 layer. @CSM725- Without your tutorial, it would have taken me a lot longer to make the tires. Keep up the good work your tutorials.

Took me all weekend to finish my car. Have a look. 100% PDN and hardest part was the wheel. But thanks to CSM725's slice orange tutorial I got it done, good technique for making tires, too.

Awesome! Love the gold border around the amethyst.

Excellent tutorial. Thanks CSM725. Made my very first fruit in PDN http://sites.google.com/site/hexrattpdn/artwork/watersidelounge.jpg

Thanks, I suspected that from the master of gold. Well, once I've learned your techniques, I will be able to make more consistent gold objects.

Nice monsters, reminds me of Pac-Man ghosts. I submitted my result in the alien lifeform contest. Thanks for the tutorial.

Love the theme. Woot, first to submit. My entry: Alien swamp things, beware they bite! http://sites.google.com/site/hexrattpdn/artwork/alienswampthings.jpg

Looks great! Now, it's tightened down with some philips head screws. Makes me want to make a sig now. Well, back to the tutorials for me. Awesome gallery, Weylin.

The gold color was by accident, I was following a tutorial for making a ring band using trail but instead of leaving it silver color I used color balance and adjusted to a yellowish color. However, when I applied metalized the yellow color became polished gold color.

Great tutorial--easy to follow & awesome effect.

Thanks guys. Yeah, I took my flying saucer and converted into Star Trek type spacecraft.

Paint.net is a very powerful tool for creating artwork or photo editing, and best of all it's free. Iron Man Theme: "Jarvis, we're not in Kansas anymore." "Red hot pursuit." "Where did he go?"

Awesome tut. This is the effect I've been looking for in my spacescape. http://sites.google.com/site/hexrattpdn/artwork/tiefighterlightspeed.jpg

http://sites.google.com/site/hexrattpdn/artwork/hiddenimage.jpg My entry: 100% PDN.

Lol, world of the worlds is funny. What was I thinking. My artwork is still noobish for a gallery. I'm still practicing with shape3d, clouds, and blurs.