Did a quick chop of my car.

Heres the original
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/raz_kaz/HPIM2971.jpg


An heres the chop
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/raz_kaz/Razdaspeed6copy.jpg




I messed up big time...teh carbon fiber hood isnt "completed", thers a small notch by the left headlight that wasn't selected. The grill is still in teh werks. Not gonna bother with the rims seeng as how you won't be able to see much. And no the car isn't lowered.

yea cf is pretty bad man when your lassoing around it try to get itinside the panel line not outside.

looks very first try-ish

"thers a small notch by the left headlight that wasn't selected."

I suggest you spend some time learning to use curves and alpha channels. That hood would be an easy selection. Also, rotate the carbon pattern so the orientation matches the hood.

Don't give up!

UPDATE


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/raz_kaz/FutureRazda.jpg

I know the colours don't match at all but it's kind of hard to get that damn copper finish and shine.

I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do now... If you want to match the hood to the original, why not just use the original?

Also, it looks like you just shaped out the hood, and added shading by hand. You did ok with the shading (the edges are kind of sharp, and one of the highlights is a little off), but try using layer options, and blending modes to carry shading through an added feature.

The hoods are different. The on in the latest update comes off a mazdaspeed6. Looks better IMO

color matching isnt too good i think you should get bigger and more high res pics to chop at first not ones like this one i wouldnt of even bothered with this pic its too small.

Actually the pic is 2.3MB it's just when it's hosted through Photobucket, it resizes it.


Pic is very huge and high res

Thought I'd give you a hand... Is this what you were going for?

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/uploads/395145/car-fixed2.jpg

teh sexy. How did u get the colour and reflexions?

I googled a pic of a mazdaspeed6 and found one that was at a fairly close angle. The color was white... I took the hood off of it, and distorted it to fit your car. Then I masked the edges of it to clean it up. With the new hood in place, I had the shadows and highlights needed. A color layer, and a few adjustment layers later it was done. If I was doing it as a project for myself I would've spent more time getting the color just right. It's still a bit off, but pretty close. Oh, I almost forgot, I did all of this over the original hood with a fair amount of transparency, so as to keep the reflections from the trees and whatnot.