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MOD SQUAD; This Time, It's Digital.(News)
Byline: RICHARD S. CHANG
Like filmmaking and music recording, import tuning has entered the digital age. A new generation of young, computer-savvy car enthusiasts is customizing virtual vehicles on the computer desktop, using the graphics design software Adobe Photoshop to chop, cut and paste parts from car to car-or what some call digimodding.
Digimodding (also called chopping) consists of digitally modifying a press photo with a number of different Photoshop techniques. Websites provide links to find stock vehicle photos, as well as detailed tutorials on how to use Photoshop to create specific custom mods, such as designing a carbon fiber hood and swapping in new wheels and tires. The results range from the toony to the stunning.
On sites like digimods.co.uk and photoshop junkie.com you will find vehicles that rival anything Hot Import Nights has to offer-minus the side order of bare nubile belly flesh. This includes flared fenders, roadster conversions, elaborate aero packages and super-slammed suspensions.
Though the trend is global, with web forums based in the United States, Poland and even the Czech Republic, it has really taken off in the United Kingdom where popular sport compact ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, MOD SQUAD; This Time, It's Digital.(News)