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Mike Pipes
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Ever since I started using photoshop a few years ago I've been doctoring photos of my trucks to add different wheels, change paint schemes and other "modifications"..

Well, it finally hit me that I could make money doing the same thing for other people so I added photo editing as a service available via my site to other car and truck freaks out there.

Check out the new pages/images and let me know what you think! The pics are my truck but the modifications are 100% faked except I actually have a lowered suspension.
http://www.stickerpimp.com/auto/di-mazda.htm

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Mike Pipes
Digital Illusion Custom Graphics
Lake Havasu City, AZ
http://www.stickerpimp.com


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roger bailey
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Great work, great idea Mike !!
Roger

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Roger Bailey
Rapid Tac Incorporated
Waikoloa, Hawaii



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Stephen Deveau
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Nice Design Work and maybe it will work in your area..
But here in Nova Scotia we have a very favorite saying and that is (Here comes a smooth spot)...
Most of the roads are pitted with pot holes and you would be lucky to find a smooth spot.
So anything that is a low rider will bottom out and the chop shop will make lots of money from the owner..
Still a nice idea or design if the roads will handle it...If not then I guess we Park and Fly...

Raven/2001

Still like to see some design on the body that you have in mind...

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Raven/2000
Airbrushed by Raven
Lower sackville N.S.
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Robert Thomas
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Cool flames,
I'm doing the same thing with my S-10. I scanned in a photo, working in CorelDRAW and Photo-Paint. I'm working on the paint design and also added a cameo bumper cover and got rid of the background, blacked out the windows and shaved the handles.
It's already lowered, more of a pro-street look, 355ci-375HP with a 700-R4 tranny. Just need to finish the paint and cosmetics.

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Robert Thomas Creative Signs In Beautiful Naples, Fl.


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Mike Pipes
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Thanks guys!

Stephen, the roads where I'm at are very nice and smooth. Arizona is a custom truck/lowrider's paradise. The weather and roads allow people to take vehicles like the one I mocked up and make them their daily drivers. =)


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Mike Pipes
Digital Illusion Custom Graphics
Lake Havasu City, AZ
http://www.stickerpimp.com


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Donna in BC
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Nice work Mike! I love creative thinking when it comes to work projects! Good to see you taking the leap and going for it.

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Graphic Impact
Abbotsford, BC, Canada
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Wayne Marchant
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COOOOL !

Did u use photoshop for the flames and the changed body colour ?

V Wayne

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V.Wayne Marchant (pronounced marsh-ant)
Vancouver,BC,Canada
opticart@lightspeed.bc.ca
http://www.signsplusmore.com


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Bob Rochon
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A+ Mike,

I love those ideas.

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Bob Rochon
Creative Signworks
Millbury, MA
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Cool stuff, been doing this for years... First image I did was for the Cadillac Allante, we made a 'latino' version, chopped top, flames, 18" wheels, lowered and sidepipes. Here is a picture of my old 'shop' truck, 2 pictures one of the hill, and one of the car, this is what I usually drive like... That is why this is my former truck... E. http://home.earthlink.net/~epatzer/AnotherSub.jpg

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George Perkins
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Looks great, I hope the roads in Arizona are as wide as they are smooth. That rig is gonna have the turning radius of a bus.........a very long bus

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George Perkins
Millington,TN.
goatwell@ionictech.com

"I started out with nothing and still have most of it left"

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Mike Pipes
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Yep, all the work was done with Photoshop.

Since the truck is already a dark color (dark green) I actually converted the image to CMYK then copied the black channel into another image. Then I brightened that image, which gave me a lighter base to work with yet maintained the right shading.. this makes for realistic color changes. =)

The flames were done using a Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer that was set to colorize using yellow. Then I used the inner glow layer effect for the orange and there's actually a deep red/orange outter glow layer effect that makes it a little richer color.

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Mike Pipes
Digital Illusion Custom Graphics
Lake Havasu City, AZ
http://www.stickerpimp.com


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