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Old Dec 3, 2016 | 08:15 AM
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Make your own magazine cover.

They've done this before in years past but Photo Reflect is offering a way to produce your own magazine covers.

http://www.myowncover.com/

I've never ordered one, but they are fun to play with.



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Old Dec 3, 2016 | 09:49 AM
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cool!
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Old Dec 3, 2016 | 10:00 AM
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what a cool thing to do, thanks op
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Nice! Thanks for sharing that.
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Old Dec 3, 2016 | 11:58 PM
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Re: Make your own magazine cover.

Cool! This sort of stuff is fun.

I may or may not have photoshopped my car into a fictional 16-bit video game screenshot...
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Old Dec 4, 2016 | 12:40 AM
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Re: Make your own magazine cover.

Am I doing it right?

(the car had 22k miles on it at the time of the photo, now up to 26k).

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Old Dec 4, 2016 | 11:43 AM
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I love it aside from their use of the Impact font. I'll have to play with it myself
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Old Dec 4, 2016 | 01:38 PM
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Thanks for sharing!
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Old Dec 5, 2016 | 07:25 AM
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Re: Make your own magazine cover.

LOL! You are doing it right & I know exactly how you feel! I had my 91 out last Thursday and took the exact same picture!

Now, the roads have already been salted at least once here (in fact it's snowing as I type this), but we had just had two days of pouring rain so I figured I was good.

Originally Posted by KMK454
Am I doing it right?

(the car had 22k miles on it at the time of the photo, now up to 26k).

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Old Dec 5, 2016 | 08:32 AM
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How are you guys saving the pix ?
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Old Dec 5, 2016 | 11:47 AM
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Re: Make your own magazine cover.

I just use the Snipping Tool software that comes with windows, block it out & save it.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...re-screenshots

A few more....






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Works pretty good!
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HAHA!

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Re: Make your own magazine cover.

GODDAMMIT!
I'm supposed to be doing Car of the Month right now...and I'm playing around with this.
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Old Dec 5, 2016 | 06:13 PM
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Re: Make your own magazine cover.

did you guys have to pay in order to copy and paste the image? i cant get any right click options.
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Old Dec 5, 2016 | 06:19 PM
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still not working right
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Old Dec 5, 2016 | 06:45 PM
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Re: Make your own magazine cover.

i know this isnt going to work, but here goes...

DAMMIT!
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Old Dec 6, 2016 | 05:24 AM
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God has nothing to do with it Linson! Just use the Snippit Tool, highlight, then save image. Go to your search block and type in "Snippit Tool". Now, get back to COTY.
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Figured it out, this could be addictive. Need better titles









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I stole Linson's line from COTM for my headline, anyway here's mine.
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Old Dec 6, 2016 | 02:54 PM
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That looks pretty impressive Arnold!
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Addictive isn't it?
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Yeah it IS.
Just what I need to be doing.......... Thanks for that Chris!!!!
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Originally Posted by Bob88GTA
That looks pretty impressive Arnold!

Thanks bud!

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Re: Make your own magazine cover.

Lots of fun. I have not figured out how to control the size of the image copied to the cover...many of mine are too large, and you get 1/3 of a car on the cover.
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Re: Make your own magazine cover.

screw it! a picture of a picture:



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Re: Make your own magazine cover.

On my bucket list is to have a "major" publication do a story on one of my cars. Furthest I ever got was a newspaper article, so this fills the void. Fun app to play with! Now all our cars are stars!!

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Re: Make your own magazine cover.

Well, this is pretty kewl. I just did one of each of my Birds.



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Re: Make your own magazine cover.

Carlos,
Good Covers, but you forgot to add a headline.
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You guys spent money on this?!?!


I can't believe nobody chose Car Craft.
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I don't think anyone spent money on this.
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Re: Make your own magazine cover.

ordered one for my sons, a supercharged 350z and a gtr on the cover not bad for the price.
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Re: Make your own magazine cover.

Originally Posted by Linson
Carlos,
Good Covers, but you forgot to add a headline.
Thanks... I didn't purchase anything, just messing around with it.
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(Skip over me - empty post that can't be deleted)

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Here's a couple multi-pic ones I did using Instagram's layout app.




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Originally Posted by QwkTrip
You guys spent money on this?!?!


I can't believe nobody chose Car Craft.
Hooked you up

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LOL! You sure did!
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Now this is Car Craft....





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LOL NICE!
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Old Dec 9, 2016 | 09:37 AM
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Re: Make your own magazine cover.

This is pretty fun.
Wish you could also add a couple more photos, and sub headlines.



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How do you save on MacBook?
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I did a screen shot with COMMAND SHIFT 4
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hehe.
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You did a good job with that car, by the way.
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Thanks.
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This is quite fun!




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It took my FOREVER to figure it out!
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