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 ;).

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)
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/4475/s2000xji5.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v666/BI0HAZARD15/S2000copy.jpg


Original:
http://www.affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/ford_model_t_1926.jpg

Chopped:
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/7741/oldtimecargm7.jpg

Sigs (these are all my work from a Mustang and Honda site):

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y152/DiENoSore/Sigs/GoBlue48044.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y152/DiENoSore/Sigs/Eun.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y152/DiENoSore/Sigs/ckyguy681.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y152/DiENoSore/Sigs/photolabgirl7117try2.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y152/DiENoSore/Sigs/ILUVMYSTANG.jpg


Well thank you for looking and thank you MF for making a Chopshop.

wow dude, nice job on those cars, i wish i was that skilled! do you just use adobe for it?

Everything is done in photoshop.

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?

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)

Looks pretty good..

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 ;)

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?

looks great! i'll be hitting you up for a Sig as soon as i get my GSX

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.

my turn duff!!
heres some of my work

check out the site for more... photoshopforyou.4t.com

http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/7760/50stangercopyoz5.jpg
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/5695/angrychickencopyor7.jpg
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/3407/jaycitysigcopy1up4.jpg
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/6317/jville808copyja0.jpg
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/9981/darkhorse5copy7yy.jpg
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/4516/jeepaddedcopyjw4.jpg
http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/9527/bencopyfs4.jpg
http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/5505/audiandtruckcopynt8.jpg
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/9550/socalxt9.jpg
http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/7849/paddy187copylb2.jpg
http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/4866/pearlwhitegtcopywc4.jpg

nice ones yomo.

thanks..

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 :D

Dude that is so raw. Look in my gallery and do one of the Bat Mobile. I will be your Guinea Pig

Get some better pics and I will. The car cant be cutoff, sould be clean and at a 3/4 angle.;)

yeah man nice car..just get pics that are not off ur cellphone..

how long does it take to create one? what exactly do you need to make one?

It all depends. 30mins to an hour. We just need a good pic of the car to work with.

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?

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.

ORIGINAL: hatchetman9449

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?

10 bucks!

why

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...

ok, so i was getting interested in trying my first chop, but i didnt even know what program to go to. i saw this thing called arcsoft photostudio, so i opened it. then i began to experiment with the things in there. so i learned the tools a lil bit and tried my first chop.....

so here are the 2 pics i started with...

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/9908/backgroundcf8.png

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5567/toyotasupramo8.png

and i managed to do this with them....

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/9464/myfirstchopfo1.png


what you guys think?

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..

Here's a bit of my work.....some of you've already seen one of these for sure....the first few are my older work....from over a year ago...





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A few more chops, mostly wallpapers...this first one is the original...



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nice work devils reject..

yea thats cool dude... i was told you guys use adobe photoshop cs2.... is that right or do you guys use something else? cuz i use some weird one like photoimpressions or something. also, how do you change the color... i triend but it just made it a solid color and made it look bad, i cant keep the shadows and fades and stuff.

heres a lil something i did for myspace....

http://i6.tinypic.com/4d5lr8l.jpg

You may not have mastered it, but that's pretty damn good man.