DuFFMaNN
2/8/2007 8:31:16 PM
Well Since my request was a success I will right alittle bit about the Chopshop.
The Chopshop is a place for all you Mitsubishi forum lovers to come and request Chops and sigs of your cars. You can ask for a Part to be digitally "Chopped" onto your car, or a color change, or a signature to carry around the forum with pride. All this is done for free so lucky you

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For best Chop results:
1. Supply good sized, clear pictures of your car.
2. Suppy donor pictures of what you would like to be put on, and at the same, or close to the same angle.
For Best sig results:
1. Supply good sized, clear pictures of your car.
2. Give a breif description of what you would like. (not too complex)
Always be polite and patient. Remember the people doing the chops are doing them out of the kindness of heart and doing it in their FREE TIME. Noone is being paid to do this work for you. So atleast be nice to them.
Examples of Chops done on other forums (not my work, I have not mastured the skill of chopping yet) :
(pic on the top left is original)
Original:
Chopped:
Sigs (these are all my work from a Mustang and Honda site):
Well thank you for looking and thank you MF for making a Chopshop.
estraw
2/8/2007 9:41:08 PM
wow dude, nice job on those cars, i wish i was that skilled! do you just use adobe for it?
DuFFMaNN
2/8/2007 11:08:39 PM
Everything is done in photoshop.
estraw
2/8/2007 11:31:58 PM
how did you do the rear bumper on the s2000 tho? did you have to crop it to look right? or did you just find one that was at the right angle already?
DuFFMaNN
2/9/2007 12:17:48 AM
quote:
ORIGINAL: estraw
how did you do the rear bumper on the s2000 tho? did you have to crop it to look right? or did you just find one that was at the right angle already?
Like I said I havnt mastured the art of chopping, those were done by other poeple.
But Im guess they used Free Transform (Ctrl +T)
TheEngineer
2/9/2007 8:34:36 AM
You use Adobe Photoshop. Lately i have been trying to learn alot of how to do things such as color changes of cars (which isnt all that difficult) and then other things like removing and adding parts to a car. It really is ALOT of work to do this stuff so when soneone helps you out with a chop, realize it took them time to do it, so be appreciative
estraw
2/9/2007 11:00:48 AM
to do the color change, ive been using the masking tool, is there an easier, more precise way to do it? or is that about it?
RCJr9186
2/9/2007 12:21:06 PM
looks great! i'll be hitting you up for a Sig as soon as i get my GSX
98eclpsrider
2/9/2007 1:48:26 PM
another way to select stuff is either selecting a channel in the channel palette(under the layers palette), making it like estraw did, selecting it using various selection tools, and you could just go into a hue/saturation mask, and colorize it. that's the main way of doing it. there are more complex ways that are had to explain.
edit: to look at some really good "chop" photoshop work,
http://www.digimods.co.uk/virtualcars.htm they do some spectacular work.
Yomofoitzjay
2/9/2007 5:43:13 PM
silvercoupe97
2/10/2007 5:18:48 AM
Welcome to MF Duffmann.
You guys do some good work. Maybe I can find some good pics of my car for you guys to do a sig for me
NubianSithLord
2/10/2007 12:38:17 PM
Dude that is so raw. Look in my gallery and do one of the Bat Mobile. I will be your Guinea Pig
DuFFMaNN
2/10/2007 11:59:53 PM
Get some better pics and I will. The car cant be cutoff, sould be clean and at a 3/4 angle.
Yomofoitzjay
2/11/2007 9:32:56 PM
yeah man nice car..just get pics that are not off ur cellphone..
RCJr9186
2/14/2007 1:07:58 PM
how long does it take to create one? what exactly do you need to make one?
DuFFMaNN
2/15/2007 12:40:42 AM
It all depends. 30mins to an hour. We just need a good pic of the car to work with.
hatchetman9449
2/20/2007 7:53:12 PM
yomo, i seen on your site it usualy cost some moola.... i know that on here they are looking for free chopers but i was curious to how much you usualy charge your customers on your site?
DuFFMaNN
2/20/2007 11:44:36 PM
I can't speak for yomo, but anything done for use on this site (or any other forum I am on) I do for free. I will do logo's or graphics for sites or products for money. I know people who charge around $50/hr with a 4 hour minimum but thats more than I would.
hatchetman9449
2/22/2007 7:36:28 PM
i was j/w.... if you would have said usualy 50 bucks an hour with a 4 hour min like duff said he seen charged befor, i would feel kinda bad just asking you to make me one... lol. thats cool you guys are willing to do it for free for the ppl on here and stuff. when i get good pics of my car and the snow is gone ill post one or something so i can see what you can do with it...
hatchetman9449
2/22/2007 8:57:17 PM
Yomofoitzjay
2/23/2007 2:29:12 PM
not bad..thats a really nice car but i dont like the rims...yeah and let us know when u want a sig..we got your back..