Before I Started Creating My Fake Cars ...

Jaguar. 
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Opel.

Renault.

Thunderbird.

D I G I T A L   A R T — Before I started creating my photoshopped fake cars, I played around with automotive press photos in a different way. Basically I was practicing in Photoshop, and using car photos to keep my interest. If there was anything I learned taking piano lessons most of my life, it was that practicing was REALLY difficult to do when I was bored with the piece of music for that week. I worked in Photoshop for my job doing pretty boring stuff like resizing photos, creating feathered edges or drop shadows, and color-correcting poorly scanned photos. I knew there were tons of filters and techniques I'd never need, but wanted to learn. I took a couple of classes and seminars, did online tutorials and then just started at the top of each pull down menu, testing each one, seeing how every single item worked. I learned to modify every preset function for better control, and this process actually ended up making everything I do in the program easier and more fun. 

I found these OLD photoshop exercises tonight on a CD dating back to 2001. I cringe at most of these today, I believe the term 'heavy handed' was meant for my technique on these desktop wallpapers, which is what I used them for. At the same time, there is a kernel of the nascent artandcolour "look" beginning to develop.

Follow the jump for four more of these desktop/wallpaper creations.

Cadillac.

Toyko Motor Show.

Jaguar.

Saab.