{"id":858,"date":"2018-05-15T07:32:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T14:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/?p=858"},"modified":"2018-05-15T07:32:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T14:32:21","slug":"digital-tutorial-creating-the-santa-fe-boxcar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidgunter.com\/es-mx\/2018\/05\/15\/digital-tutorial-creating-the-santa-fe-boxcar\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Tutorial: Creating the Santa Fe Boxcar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Software Used<\/h3>\n

I used Adobe Photoshop along with a logo that was initially created in Adobe Illustrator. However, you could do this tutorial entirely with the free and open-source application Gimp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Blank Rectangular Canvas<\/h3>\n

It starts like this, an open rectangle filled with the color of a faded red boxcar. They are everywhere out here in the southwest so it shouldn’t be hard to find one. Take a picture or go from memory. Fill the background with this color (#7a2d28 used here) and add some noise for texture.<\/p>\n

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Base Color\u00a0#7a2d28<\/p><\/div>\n

Most boxcars have some cargo capacity information stenciled onto them. Add some text in a stencil-type font. I used Boston Traffic Regular<\/a> for this image. Play around with the layer blend mode so it appears the text has been painted on.<\/p>\n

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Add stenciling<\/p><\/div>\n

Find or create the Santa Fe logo. I created this one from scratch as a vector in Illustrator. For fonts, www.railfonts.com<\/a> has a great collection of fonts used by older train companies and related businesses. If you do not want to spend money on the font, Cooper Black<\/a> is a close substitute. Use the same layer blending technique to make it appear painted on. Even better, remove a few random spots to make it looked chipped in places.<\/p>\n

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Add the Santa Fe Railway logo.<\/p><\/div>\n

Create the seams. Boxcars are simple internal frames with flat steel seamed and riveted into place. The seams here are simple lines, with a bevel\/emboss effect added. Opacity was adjusted to help them blend in.<\/p>\n

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Santa Fe Railway Boxcar is taking shape with seams added.<\/p><\/div>\n

The rivets were created in a similar way to the seam lines, simple circles with bevel\/emboss gradient added (grey) and then blended into the background using the layer blend modes.\u00a0 After creating one it is best to cut\/paste the rest.<\/p>\n

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Santa Fe Railway Boxcar – Rivets added.<\/p><\/div>\n

It is subtle, but the logo had to be funged a bit where it covers rivets and seams, so it appears painted on an uneven surface.<\/p>\n

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Fudging around the logo a bit to match surface appearance on seams and rivets<\/p><\/div>\n

I haven’t quite figured out how to make rust look realistic (yet). Instead, I found an image of rust from a junkyard\/ghost town photo shoot from a long while back. I used this and layered it across the image. Opacity was adjusted until it looked good enough, something like 20% opacity.<\/p>\n

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The rust texture image<\/p><\/div>\n

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Reduction of the rust layer opacity allows the underlying image to come through.<\/p><\/div>\n

The image needed lightening up and then a hue reduction to make it look faded. This is the final version.<\/p>\n

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Santa Fe Railway Boxcar – final version after lightening and adjusting hue for faded look.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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