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20+ Car Pimping and Tuning Photoshop Tutorials

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 09:38 AM PDT

We’ve seen how Photoshop has been extensively used in areas like web designing and beauty photo retouching. In today’s post, we bring you into another stretch where Photoshop also rules and dominates – the modding and sketching of rides.

This following article is dedicated to car lovers, forumites who use car photos as signatures, web designers or anyone who fascinates nice rides. We search the Internet and here we put forward some of the best Photoshop tutorials with techniques on how to mod a car. Full list after jump.

Colors Manipulation

Chrome your car
Gives your car body that chrome effect. Works better with black default.

Color Tweak The Ferrari
This tutorial make use of an additional mask and give your car a color change on the fly by applying different color blending options.

How to make Car Advertisement Mock-ups
Get your car air brushed with any color, or design. But before that, Thomas Baekdal suggest you give it the right base color.

Add Flaming Decals to a Modern Car Design
This tutorial will explain the steps needed to turn this boring Prius into an awesome street racer.

Body and Parts Enhancements

Porsche digital rendering photoshop tutorial
How to render a low quality digital car photo into a high quality output.

Give your car a little wood
Here is one way to take a simple texture and apply it to a shaped object like a car and have it appear to follow the body contours.

Create a stempunk golden car

Create a real life "Cars"
How to create a real CARS of your own cars.

Change rims on a car

Vanity License Plate
How to create a custom vanity license plate using a few basic Photoshop tools a piece of reference material and some creative layer stylings.

Car Enhancement with Digimods

Folks at Digimods have a comprehensive list of Photoshop tutorials covers almost everything you will want to mod on a ride. From adding a bad boy bonnet, carbon fibre bonet to lowering the car, changing the wheels and much more!

Freehand and Sketching

Concept car sketch Photoshop Tutorial
This tutorial describes how to render this car with paths, and finishes the paints with later masks and filters.

Drawing a Car Lineart in Photoshop
Draw the lineart of this Mclaren F1 using paths. You are required to have some experience in using Photoshop’s Pen tool to be able to draw this car in detail.

Photoshop Rendering
Photoshop rendering in Photoshop by Emre Husmen, a 20 year old Turkish design student, also the 2004 Peugeot Design Contest finalist.

Rapid Development Sketching
"In this tutorial it is assumed that you already have a design theme worked out and know roughly what your car will look like. Ideally you would be working over a photo of a clay or screenshot of an alias model. I have chosen a supercar to show the methods used here because the forms are exaggerated and it is easier to see how they are being rendered." Miles Waterhouse

Vector Car Tutorial
This tutorial guides you through creating a vector toon based Veilside’s Fortune RX7 from scratch.

Dramatic Effects

Create a truck coming from a flame
Create a Acura commercials simmilar effect where a truck came out from the flame.

Super Slick Lighting Effects
Learn how to combine photos and brush strokes to give a car photo slick dusky lighting effects.

How To Create An Amazing Car Illustration
How to create a fierce car illustraton making use of different type of brushes.

Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot
"We have another tutorial this week in which we will learn some menus of blur filter, which will help us create smoke effect. We will also cover up some brush technique too to make this smoke effect."

Video Tutorials

Photoshop Car Tuning – 65 videos and 3 how-to articles to learn all about Photoshop car tuning, by wonderhowto.com

YouTube – Tons of great video tutorials are hidden within YouTube. We attempt to pull out some of the best for you, sorted by view count.

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41 Image and Icon Search Engines Designers Should Know

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 07:56 AM PDT

Let’s face it, most of us don’t create every single image and icon when we do web design. It is not because we can’t but merely because we’ve got better options. Kudos to many designers and their generosity, there are in fact a lot of really nice creative common images and icons on the Internet we can take advantage. All we need to know is – where to find them.

In this post, we want to bring to your attention some of the really great search engines that will come in handy when it comes to image and icon search. Full list after jump!

Image Search Engines

EveryStockPhoto

A search engine for free photos come from many sources and are license-specific. You can view a photo’s license by clicking on the license icon, below and left of photos.
Xcavator

Xcavator.net is a stock photo search portal for the creative community. You can quickly browse the way you think – visually – through millions of stock images.
Ginipic

Ginipic takes image search to a whole new level. Now you can search image search engines, photo sharing websites or your own local picture collections simultaneously.
GazoPa

GazoPa is a next generation similar image search engine in private beta. Users can search images from the web based on user’s own photo, drawings, images found on the web and keywords.
FreeFoto

FreeFoto.com is the largest collection of free photographs on the Internet. FreeFoto.com features exclusive images found nowhere else on the web with new pictures being added every week.
TurboPhoto – Free Stock Images

Browse and download 2,000 (3.4 GB) free stock images from 10 categories (view all thumbnails below). Stock images are in the public domain.
Feelimage

Feelimage is not only key words search. It is also equipped phrase search, that is images search engine ‘FeelPhrase®‘.
It’s corresponding 127 colors, and has a technology that quantifies colors like ‘red’ ‘ blue’ in images.
oSkope

oSkope is a visual search assistant that lets you browse and organize items from Amazon, Ebay, Flickr, Fotolia, Yahoo!Image Search and YouTube in an intuitive way.
Incogna

Incogna process the shape in every image and use this to build a large scale searchable visual index.
Imagery

Imagery search executes an keyword search and rollover results to get photo dimensions and options to open the source page or the image itself.
ImageBase

The ImageBase is a searchable image and text database of objects from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Pixolu

An image search engine which lets you go deeper into the mechanism of image search and lets you find more relevant images using the image results it displays the first time you search.
Picsearch

Search the web for images. An image search service with more than 3,000,000,000 pictures.
Picitup

Picitup is a leading web 3.0 developer and provider of content based image search services.
PicFog

PicFog provides a real time image search.
PicFindr

PicFindr is a rich internet application (RIA) that helps you search several stock image and photo community sites simultaneously.
Pixsy

Pixsy powers video and image search experiences for some of the Internet’s leading brands including Pearson, Lycos, National Lampoon, Cooliris, BuddyTV, Infospace, and many others.
Biomed-Search

Search for images from biomedical articles. Currently over 1 Million images have been indexed. BioMed Seach indexes image captions along with the citations to these images.
Bing Image Search

An image search engine on Bing.
Compfight

A Flickr image search tool.
Tiltomo

Tiltomo, where you can play with our Visual Search code using two sample databases from flickr.
Altavista Image Search

Altavista image search tool.
Photogen

The source for quality, high-res FREE stock photos and images.
Yahoo! Image Search

Image search engine on Yahoo!
Google Image Search

A very powerful image search engine provided by Google.
facesaerch

Enter a name and search for faces!
Multicolr

With the Multicolr Search Lab, you can browse through 10 million of Flickr’s most ‘interesting’ Creative Commons images, and find ones that share the same colours.
PicBrk

A real time image search.
PD Photo

PDPhoto.org is a repository for public domain photos.
Stock.XCHNG

Stock.XCHNG lets you browse through the categories of our huge gallery containing over 350.000 quality stock photos by more than 30.000 photographers!

Icon Search Engines

Challenger IconDB

Challenger IconDB (Icon Database) is a database that contains icons of various sizes and keywords attached to them.
ICONLOOK

ICONlook.com is a place where to find your icons and offers a pretty handy interface for searching and downloading icon files.
Icons-Search

The Icons-Search is an Icon Search Engine that helps you to find quality icons available on the Internet. You can find icons for Windows Vista and XP, Macintosh, Linux, icons for Desktop, Software, Website, Mobile, Presentation, in sizes from 16×16 to 256×256 in PNG format and sizes from 16×16 to 128×128 in ICO format.
Iconlet

Iconlet is simple search engine for free icons, images. For every image user get information about author, image resolution, graphics format and license type.
IconFinder

Iconfinder provides high quality icons for webdesigners and developers in an easy and efficient way.
IconSeeker

The IconSeeker.com is an icon search engine on web, it contents about 50,000+ high quaility icons and each icon has PNG, ICO and ICNS formats for Windows, Macintosh and Linux Systems.
Icon Library
EasyIconFinder

EasyIconFinder is a new Icon Search Engine that helps you find quality icons now available simple by filling in a keyword !
Free Icons Web

Free Icons Web is where you can browse and download Over 15,000 high quality Free Icons for Windows, Macintosh and Linux Systems.
Very Icon

The VeryIcom.com is a icon search engine, it contents over 20000 high quaility web icons in more than 1000 icon packs. Each Icon has serval file formats such as PNG, ICO, you can free browse and download for Windows, Macintosh and Linux Systems.
IconsPedia

Search and download free icons in PNG format. Arranged by categories, that include animals, food and phones.