My very first car photo alteration

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As the title states, this was my very first car photo alteration, so I know it's not very good, but then again I didn't really think it would be. I've been cleaning out my laptop and came across this and thought I'd share this and the other works like this I've done - in order.

Okay, so here what happened - I friends from the race track would are obviously into car, and a wife of one of my competitors was looking to get her daughter a Beetle for her 16th birthday. I was asked to make a simple design for the car so it would not be stock. I didn't want to make this poor car into a "Fast & Furious" style car. I wanted to keep it simple so this is what I came up with.

Photo:
* Gran Turismo 4 (PS2) - Photo Mode
* Photographed by (I use that term loosely) Madalynne Crowe (me)

Alterations:
* Lowered suspension - done within game (no photo alteration needed)
* Increase rim size from 14" to ??"
* HID bulbs for the Head Lamp and Fog Lamps
* Smoked the headlight covers
* Amber colored bulbs for turn signals to give mild color in the lenses
* Carbon fiber hood (which didn't come out correctly, but the idea was conveyed)
* A simple 2-part color graphic for the side of car
* A rubber covering for the "side skirting" to add to the Modern-Retro look of the Beetle.

This was a learn experience for me and I did learn a lot from this like the original photo is okay on it's own, but it doesn't really work well with my purpose. I tried another photo digital alteration shortly after this project with a lot more work done to the car. I'll post that too.

As always any and all comments are welcome.