You are going to redesign a car in this lesson.

Here are links to pictures of cars.  Remember they have to be pictures of the side of the car.

Car 1  Car 2  Car 3  Car 4  Car 5  Car 6 

There are other cars at http://www.seriouswheels.com/

The tutorial was created from cjmcguinness.  His tutorial can be found at http://paintdotnet.forumer.com

The additions I made to his tutorial are in red.

Here are the two tools you are going to be using the most.

  This is called Rectangle Select.  You can click and drag a box to select with.

  Move Selected Pixels

We are going to take a picture of a full-sized sports car and modify it to look like a cool Toy Car.

Start with a picture of a car - must be taken completely side-on for best effect.



Start with the Rectangle Select tool and select the front area of the car - ahead of the wheel arch, from top to bottom of the picture. (If there is a flare on the wheel arch select outside that as well, it'll look better).



Now, switch to the Move Selected Pixels tool and, selecting one of the middle points, shrink the size of the shape by 50%. 

Move the separated piece over to the car.



Switch back to the Rectangle Select tool and now select the middle area of the car, the whole area between the front and rear wheels.



Again, use the Move Selected Pixels tool to squash this selection to 50% of it's original size.



Then, using Rectangle Select again, highlight the are behind the rear wheels.



Once more, use the Move Selected Pixels tool to contract this to 50% of it's original width.



Now, you need to move all the pieces back together.

To get rid of the left-over space, use the Magic Wand tool and select the transparent area of the canvas. Press CTRL+I to invert the selection and go Image > Crop to Selection (CTRL+SHIFT+X) and voila - you have turned a full sized car into a toy version.





This'll work for any car as long as the pic is taken directly side on...

Like this.....


or this.....