Official Formula 1 Website Diagrams

hi there,

on the official formula one website (www.formula1.com) there is a
section called technical analysis. take for example the moncao race.
if you click on to this page:
http://www.formula1.com/race/technical_analysis/757/285.html
you will see the toyota car in its front section. i am ok with
isolating the car and getting the faded effect, but does anyone know
what sort of effect the artist has applied to the actual car itself? i
would love to be able to apply this to everyday photography i take. i
have adobe photoshop but have not installed it yet, i have been using
various other packages.

thanks in advance,

noccer

 

It looks to me like an illustration not a photograph.

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indeed i did think that myself for a while, but the sheer pace at which
they are added up on to the website once the new car components are
introduced is staggering, leading me to belive they are photos
doctored, not illistrations.
plus the millimetre accuarcy & reality of the pics are also something
that cannot be matched by a hand drawing in such a short space of time.
i mean, they are sometimes posted up on the net within minutes of
practice, qualifying and race sessions having ended.

 

That is UNQUESTIONABLY an illustration. Trust me, there are some
seriously professional illustrators out there. You underestimate them
significantly.

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Aaron

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good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the
rest." -- John Stuart Mill

 

The artist has not applied an effect. That diagram is not a photograph.
It is a piece of artwork drawn by an artist, not a filter run on a
photographic image.

 

The Web site has the money to hire a team of professional illustrators.

 

It's an illustration, hell it's even signed by the artist.

 

The chap who created this illustration, is not even an illustrator, he's a
programmer, in fact amazing as it may seem, this is I believe, his first
attempt at a car!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/231853808/

 

on that page he mentions drawplus8
http://comm-unique.com.au/Serif/drawplus8/newinterface.htm