Carbon Fiber Hood Tutorial

[Yakusa]

This is my first tutorial on the web so go easy on me.

1.Select the image

2. Select the hood
For this step you ca either use the Polygonal Lasso tool or the pen tool. The pen tool is neater but harder to use so if you are a begginer use the Polygonal lasso tool.



Now that we have our car prepped and ready for the carbon fiber hood, we are going to create a new canvas so we can create the CF pattern.

Go: "File - New"
Make the size 12px x 6px.
Be sure to select "TRANSPARENT"
x

Zoom in to the new canvas all the way (1600%).

With the rectangle selection tool, select the top/left quarter of the canvas.
Now bust out the gradient tool and fill the selection area with a black-to-white color scheme.


Now select the bottom/right quadrant of the canvas and repeat the gradient filling process.

After that, go:
"Select - All"
then:
"Edit - Define Pattern"
then:
Type in "Carbon Fiber" and hit OK.


Now this is where it gets tricky.
Create a new layer (this should be your third layer) and go:
"Edit - Fill"
then:
Select "Pattern" from the dropdown menu, and click on your Carbon Fiber pattern you just created.

After that, you should have an entire layer over the car that is filled with the pattern as seen but the picture on the right.


Now to make sure the pattern has that 3D appearance to it, we are going to use:
-Edit
-Transform
-Skew

Now drag the corner points inward for the top portion and outward for the bottom portion.
Press "enter" to confirm your transformations.
Now we have a 3D look.

To shake things up, while we are on the CF layer, go:
-Edit
-Transform
-Rotate
and rotate the pattern, so long as the pattern still overlays the hood portion of the car.


Remember the copy of the hood we made earlier? Time to use it!
Hold down "Ctrl" and click on the hood layer. It should make a selection in the shape of the hood. Pretty cool huh?

Now, go:
"Select - Inverse"
then,
press "Delete" to erase all the portions of the CF pattern that aren't over the hood.


Now as to not make a blocky texture, we are going to make sure our selection is the the shape of the hood (Ctrl - click on the hood layer) and go:
-Filter
-Twirl

Use similar settings to the one on the right.


Now make sure your CF pattern layer is active, and change the Layer's Blending mode to "Multiply" as seen on the
the picture.

To wrap up the package, make the hood layer active and go:
"Image - Adjust - Hue/Saturation"

Now slide the "Saturation" slider to the left. But not all the way!

[SiRyan]

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[supersly_jones]

he's not finished

[Yakusa]

It didnt come out as I want it but it is a good start.

[Sunny]

looks good, i wish i had photoshop.