Z Photo Editing

[sexual_sushi]

Hi all, I have a very ambitious project... complete a show quality stroker engine before the z nationals 2009. Obviously when done right this is a very expensive feat so I'm offering my services editing photos in exchange for some pennies for the project

Editing can be anything from basic colour and brightness adjustment to complex enhancement and effects.

Common processes/services include:
-cropping and resizing
-spot/chip removal
-object removal
-colour correction
-lighting effects
-motion blur
-sky/background replacement
-chrome/highlight enhancement

Here are some before and after examples







And these photos have been taken off zedevans gallery here on VicZCar (hope you don't mind )





Just email, pm or reply if you're interested
Cheers
Shaun

[van]

Damn.  I don't have a use for your services myself, but I do have to say, that's some great work mate.  Really nice.  Good luck with this project, I'm sure you'll find some willing customers!

[zedevan]

whats with all you ppl photoshoping my car to be a different green? trying to make me get it painted a different green huh? lol

how about removing the damage off the side of my car?

[van]

Haha he didn't change the colour of the car specifically, he just oversaturated the colours of the entire photo

[sexual_sushi]

hahaha yeah the original photo has an overall "blue" tone. You can see it in the whites and the road and the grass which means that it shouldn't be an accurate interpretation of the real colour anyway? I just did some colour balancing to take the blue out and then like van said, up the saturation a lil

[George]

looks like a tungsten white balance to me.

great work SS and gl with the project. what exactly do you want to do with the engine?

[van]

I just blogged about it over at my site, hope it helps

http://grandjdm.com/2007/07/09/want-your-classic-jdm-to-look-this-good/

[sexual_sushi]

cheers van, thats awesome. i swear vicZcar is the friendliest forum (especially for Z sites) in the world

as for the engine I'm goin for a 3.1 litre stroker with triple 44mm webbers using ka24e 89mm forged pistons, the diesel maxima crankshaft obviously, 240z rods (the 9mm ones), a moderate camshaft (say around stage 2 or 3 according to motorsport autos specs) and a new header. Then theres all the machine work including balance and blueprinting pretty much everything, the overbore and port and polish etc. AND then... all the small stuff like turbo oil pump, coil, electric fan and water pump and all the gaskets and bearings etc. After all that I'm getting all the shiny stuff. Chromed and polished parts wherever they can go

All up I'm allowing about $8000 and I already have the webbers and electric fuel pump (not much i know but its a start!). Nearly had the crankshaft but thats a long story which you can read here...http://www.viczcar.com/forum/index.php/topic,1302.msg9085.html#msg9085

[zedevan]

hmmm i agree that the white balance isn't correct in the first pic, however all the greens in the picture are pretty accurate, atleast on my monitor lol. there really wasn't anything in the pics to lift the colour at all as its all really greys and greens so i like you what you've done, but it aint that colour green in person its the more boring orginal photo colour, atleast in that light hehe, i'm pretty sure its the same colour as the rb26 260z in qld, but another green would b nice...anyway i htink i've had to long a day and picking a mate up from the airport this morning didn't help!


i assume u'd also happily take pictures for people, adjust them and then print them posters if they wanted?

sounds like a nice engine setup you have planned there, r you doing that to nigels car or your project one?

[sexual_sushi]

yeah im happy to take a few photos or even do a full photo shoot with multiple locations. I can print any size easily up to 30x96 inches which is bloody huge! I can supply jsut the print or have them mounted and framed aswell.

I can also design custom displays for car shows etc which you can get framed or I can work out other unique ways to display them. And there are also a number of different mediums to print to including canvas, glass and aluminium however these are getting a bit up there on the money sides of things.

This is a quick one I did up and put in a cheap frame for the classic japanese show and shine last year...




Yeah the engine is for nigels car. My project car is gona be a daily driver and I would hate to pay for fuel for that engine

[Toecutter]

The framed pics with the info is an excellent idea! You should also promote your serves on ClassicZcars. Shipping in a post pack to the US would be cheap!

Good work.