Attached Link: 'Vette and Babe

I visit the Corvetteforum.com a lot and wanted a pic to use in my signature, so I created this image. I use a much smaller version in my signature, of course. I photographed my 'Vette with a digital camera (Kodak DC260), planning the camera angle so I could pose a girl on the hood. Then I brought the picture into Poser 4 as a background and created the girl. Had to get my wife to pose for me so I could get the girl's pose to look somewhat natural. I adjusted the camera angles to make her appear to be on the hood of the car, then rendered her against a black background, saving as a TIF file. I did four separate renders in order to get the girl, her reflection, and the light shadows she casts on the hood. Since Poser saves an alpha mask in the TIF file, all you have to do is load a selection, and pick the mask as the selection. The girl was automatically separated from the background, then I pasted her into the picture of the 'Vette on a separate layer. I did the same with each of the images I rendered. Because I had rendered against a black background, there was a black matte or fringe around the edges of the girl, so I used Layer, Matting, Remove Black Matte to get rid of that. I placed the girl on the hood, then used Free Transform to skew the reflection a little so it looked right, rotated it so it matched the girl, moved it into place and reduced its opacity to about 45%, and masked it off with a layer mask where it crosses the edge of the hood. I went through similar operations with the shadows, which I probably could have left off, they are so faint. I really only needed the renders of the girl to get the shape of the shadow outlines, which I filled with black and reduced the opacity to around 40%, skewed them until they looked to be flat on the hood, positioned them, and voila! Oh, the other thing I did was to paint on the girl's thong. I couldn't get the conforming bikini bottom to conform right in Poser.