How's my Carbon Fiber look going( :) )????

[85RX7]

ooooooooook now.......... i just learned how to do this corbon fiber look an hour ago, ive been practicing a little, and came up with this, apart from being an odd thing to do with the car, is the CF looking ok???

[GTR Dreamer]

mmmmm, a carbon fibre car!, yea cf is lookin good, maybe just a bit darker. good going!

[85RX7]

thanks

[illusionest]

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no offense, its a very interesting idea,
and very "lightweight" idea for a car
but i still fink it doesnt look like carbon fibre.
but its much beter than mine.....lol..hehe

[Spastik_Roach]

The Carbon Fibre needs to be HEAPS smaller.

[GTR Dreamer]

yea a bit smaller also.

[Ferrari Tifosi]

Not to be harsh at all, but its my nature. This looks nothing like carbon fiber. Look at this post as constructive criticism.

[car_fiend]

it looks pretty good, just the cf needs to b a bit darker.

[85RX7]

i thought it needs to be alot smaller. I followed the tutorial in that PS bille thing, did what it said, thought it was WAY to big and made it 1/4 the size, but it is still too big. lol.

Thanks for the help, much appreciated.

[stratos]

put the atached picture as a patern ( the litle balck dot ) ....

[RuiG]

Hello.

Well...carbon has a lot to be said.

This tutorial by Digimods gives good results, but I'll try to add some personal tips.

http://www.digimods.co.uk/tutorials/carbonbonnet.htm

The things I add to that tutorial are:
-in stage4 my pattern is lighter, but just about the same
-in stage6 I open a new document with about double the size of the pic I'm working in.( ex: original-1024/800 new docuement-2048/1600)
-in stage8 paste the mesh document and resize it until it fits the area to "carbonize" by a small margin
-in stage10 I only twirl about 30%
-in the middle and before merge the layers I still copy the mesh layer (already cut to fit) select inverse (ctrl+i), make it very bright and set the layer to "soft light" (adjusting the opacity until it looks good)
*the carbon should have a "yellowish/oranje" look (I think )

Hope it makes sense.

RuiG

[Mustang]

i put this on for UK before you might like it

[RuiG]

Hello Mustang.

My mesh lloks about the same, only a bit lighter and perhaps longer...but adjusting brightess/contrast should lead to the same final result.

Have fun.

RuiG

[85RX7]

ive done some more, probably 1/4 the size and darker, looks much better, but i can't post the pic coz my internet is not letting me open up more than 1 window at a time, so i cant open up the attachment window to attach the pic. try 2 post later.