Here is what i ended up with.....

Had a few more goes on it juse trying things out... simple things really.... im still rather happy with the 1st one I also like the bottom one




and yes, i do like the glows lol

Nice work Mike!

Thanks

Great work especially for your first go. There are thousands of great tutorials for photoshop on the web. If I am trying to do a certain effect I usually google it and find a step by step tutorial on exactly what I am trying to do with relative ease.

Thanks for the advice

i've just done an animation, i'm using it as my sig on here...

The latest:

I took this:


and turned it into this:



I know its not perfect but still.....

Great work for 1st tries. Are you using point to point when tracing round the car. Give freehand a try, it will give you a smoother image then you can feather the selection.

I was messing all day on photoshop yesterday. I have never used it before. I have tried photoimpact but could never figure out how to cut out an object. It was really annoying. Photoimpact had loads of different wizards to do stuff but it was too clever for its own good sometimes.
My first attempt in photoshop.



Poor little boy looks very squashed in there.

Thats good!!

I was using the magnetic lasso tool and i may have used the pollygon one at some point... I have added a lightning effect to it now