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Tire Smoke & Burnouts
« Thread Started on Apr 16, 2008, 3:52am »

Many people want to add the effect of tire smoke or a burnout to the pictures, so here are 2 different ways you can do this. The first example is very simple, you just find & select other pictures that have the effects your looking for and chop (cut & paste) them into your picture ;

^ this is the base photo we will use for these examples, we first of all added a background that was appropriate, a race track setting, then we found some tires and wheels that were spinning and pasted them in as well :

next we found a car doing a burnout and cut the car out to leave the smoke ;

^ that is the simple easy way to do this, now if you really want to make it look awesome, then it takes another technique called "brushing" or painting the colors into the picture, this takes more effort but the results are better :

^ as you can see the brushed picture is much more effective than a simple chop, it takes some time & practice to do this, but here are the steps...
1. take the small smudge tool & "spin" the rims a little bit, not to much just a few curved strokes will do it, spin the burnout wheel (or the drive wheels, this can be done for RWD or FWD cars) a touch more than the other ones;

2. add some white & or gray paint brushed blobs over the wheels, then use the FADE erase tool to lessen the color until the wheel slightly starts to show through again, you can also reduce the opacity level of the layer you painted the "smoke" on & be sure to use a different layer for each step of this process, you will see why that is very important in a minute !!

3. now take the smudge tool again and just swirl the smoke around following the tire and body back into the air & across the pavement ;

4. next, use the airbrush tool and choose various sizes to add a slight "mist or fog" to the areas surrounding the tires and trailing backwards on the path of the cars direction it is moving ;

5. by now your starting to get the basic feel of what is happening, the car is starting to smoke and you have gone through the basic steps to making it look realistic, now all you need to do is repeat those steps with different layers each time and slightly different colors, like a blue & or green tint ;

again swirl it around and adjust the opacity or use the eraser until it looks right to you, use as many layers as you need to get the effect you want ;

6. your almost done !!...now once you have what looks pretty decent, make a new layer and add pure white paint strokes, big ones & them take a small to medium hard eraser and just cut holes into that white you just painted over everything you did ;

7. thats it !...well almost. here is the important part, after you smudge the heck out of that last white top layer, REDUCE the level of the layer so that EVERYTHING you did before starts to show back up again, then just go back layer by layer & adjust EACH LAYER to create the DEPTH of the smoke !!!

Once you play around with adjusting all the smoke layers, and you can erase a bit here or there as you wish, or add more to any given layer until it works;

^ That's It, your SMOK'IN !!!

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Re: Tire Smoke & Burnouts
« Reply #1 on Apr 16, 2008, 4:27am »

Now no matter what angle or style of smoke you want, the steps are the same, just make it all fit into the picture so that it becomes part of the image and not just some "stuff" flying over the car. If you practice the steps here you will get quite good at it and can do pretty mush anything you want :