Image Reference: Technical Questions

Big Rocket

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping to do the Audi Le Mans Quattro. But the problem is that I can't find 3-view reference pictures.<ul type="square">[*]Any good website(s) with 3-views of cars, planes, etc.? Of course, I'm looking for the Audi Le Mans Quattro, but if there is another nice-looking car with good 3-view refs, I may do that instead.
[*]For another project, I found 3-views of a car, but when I matched up the front/side/top shots, certain features of the car did not align in 3D space, because of perspective (objects closer to the camera appear bigger in the front view, and smaller in the side view, such as the head lamps). Are there any Photoshop tricks you use to correct this problem (short of scaling up and down individual parts of the picture)?[/list]

Thanks,
BR

Cubik

http://blueprints.onnovanbraam.com/
http://www.suurland.com/
Check these first.

Big Rocket

Thanks. I just saw the image ref thread, and found what I need here. Once I scaled the photos, they seem to have minimal perspective distortion, so I'm all set for now with the Audi Le Mans Quattro.

But for my future reference, any Photoshop tricks to correct for perspective distortions, if you're stuck with poor image refs?

Edit: I just found out an easy way to take care of perspective distortion in Photoshop. Is this common knowledge, or should I do a quick tut? FYI, I used the scale command, but the trick is knowing which parts to scale.

-BR

Ryno

Vehix is an excellent resource as well. They have rotatable Quicktime VRs of the cars, and with a few print screens, you can get many angles of the car.

Daz

http://smcars.net/forum/index.php