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    Fluorite Toothpaste poker's Avatar
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    Volvo is a great car!!

    This is an actual vehicle that I was behind while making a left turn in Hollywood, California.

    Excuse the blatant use of PS effects. I felt like using this photo to practice on some PS filters I never tried before like Blur Radial Zoom. I also wanted to practice more on masking difficult objects.


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    Re: Volvo is a great car!!

    I think the filters are totally OTT, quite apart from looking unatural, it actually hurts to look at it.
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    Re: Volvo is a great car!!

    I like the zoom effect. I had assumed that you had zoomed a lens while shooting in until I read otherwise. I think the effect would have been even more effective if the car had been centered. But I like overall.

    I've had a few cars that looked about that bad ;)

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    Re: Volvo is a great car!!

    Successful on every level. Nice piece of improvement on your image.
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    Re: Volvo is a great car!!

    My first car was a volvo, the owner paid me $100 to take it ;) When I was done with it, it had 340k + miles ;) That thing was a tank ! It looked far worse than that when I was done and still drove pretty well .
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    Re: Volvo is a great car!!

    If I look qt it for more then a few seconds I start to get dizzy. Really cool!
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    Re: Volvo is a great car!!

    Quote Originally Posted by SmartWombat
    I think the filters are totally OTT, quite apart from looking unatural, it actually hurts to look at it.
    Well, yeah, but this is how you learn to use stuff in PS. Actually I think it's kind of cool. And they can run forever but it does take some work/money to make that happen.

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    Re: Volvo is a great car!!

    I was just trying to have some fun with this odd subject. As you can see, the original picture was dull in many ways.

    Thanks for looking it over. Sorry for the vertigo!
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    Re: Volvo is a great car!!

    The first one's much better imo ;)
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