36 replies to this topic

[Bobby9779]

Still one think I can't do...

How do you do a roof chop?

[animammel]

well the lazy way is to just cut out the car and free transform the roof part. can be done with distort and bring the two top corners towards the centre if i may remember correctly

[Bobby9779]

What is the best way to do it for best effect?

Comp finishes tonight (might bring next one forward abit....maybe 2100 (9 o'clock), incase I want early nights etc....lol

[animammel]

Its all in the free transforming of it. many ways around it but the basics are the same. you can lasso around the roof and down to around the window line and free transform that to the desired height and then distort or warp it in the shape so the sides line up or another way is to take the background from the window line up and free transform it as a whole. I believe Ed used this method by skewing part of it. its all down to preference but have a go

[Bobby9779]

Few hours left,

If there is anyone still wanting to post up, now's the time!

[tedmcedd]

im not saying this is how its done, but my roof chops usually happen like this:

i use the rectangular marque tool and select the whole top half of the image, cutting through the pillars near the base, i then layer via copy, and ctrl+T and squash the roof section to the desired 'chop' I then right click and select various transform tools, main ones are distort and warp to manipulate the layer until it matches the bottom pillars... once its at the right shape i'm after, I then use the clone stamp, the sponge tool and the smudge tool to blend it all together. then, i select an eraser make the diameter quite large and have a 0% hardness and blend the background from the squashed roof back into the origiginal background, clone stamp is also useful here too...

there could be a quicker way, but thats the way i like to do it...

I used a similar technique on the arches to make them slightly wider and rounder....

Ed

[Bobby9779]

Interesting.

Very much revitalised by the new rule, I have been looking in to more tricks on the web.....so stand by for the next weeks comp. lol.

1 hrs left, if your waiting for the last min, don't....

Edited by Bobby9779, 10 May 2011 - 08:22 PM.