How to Draw Car Rims
If you have a car related business or a website or forum devoted to cars, you might want to be able to create your own cool rim graphics, perhaps as a part of your logo, an ad, or maybe to use as a clickable button on your site. You might have thought that you would either have to buy this graphic pre-made or hire a graphics artist to make it for you. But if you have access to Photoshop or the freeware graphics program GIMP, you can create your own custom car rim designs.
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Sketch out your ideas on paper. Even if you are not a great artist, this will help you organize your thoughts about the kind of rim you want.
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Open Photoshop. Select "File" and click "New." In the dialog box that opens make the pixel height and width what you want for your project. But keep in mind that the raster graphics made in Photoshop are not infinitely enlargeable without loss of clarity (unlike vector graphics). This means that if you think that you might in the future use this rim graphics for a very large sign or billboard, you will want to make it large in the settings to begin with.
With the resolution, it is also a matter of the purpose you plan for the rim graphic. If it is going to be placed on the web, you can make the resolution 72. If it is going to be printed professionally in ads, you might want to up the resolution to 300. Unless you want to have a color square border around your rim graphic, make the "background" transparent. Click "OK."
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Change the "Brush" size in the options to 1. Select the "Elliptical Shape" tool. Hold down the "Shift" key and use it to draw the outer edge of your rim onto the canvas. Click on the "Paths" tab and right-click on the path. Select "Stroke Path." Create a new layer.
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Select the "Pen" tool and set it to "Fill." Start drawing in the shapes for your rim. Keep in mind that what you are actually trying to do is draw in the holes in the rim. Use the "Convert Point" tool to move the point around. You can also select the points and use the "Bezier Curves" to adjust the lines to create curves.
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Select "layers" from the menu and click "Merge Layers." Now click on the "FX" icon to bring up the "Blending Options." Select "Bevel and Emboss" and in the options make the "Style" "Inner Bevel," the "Depth" 320 and the "Size" 20. Then click "OK" and save your graphic as a PNG to preserve the transparency for use in other documents and on a webpage.
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