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Introduction

In this tutorial, I will be showing how to drastically modify a render of a car to lower it to your liking, and change the color. This basic, easy, six step tutorial will get anyone on their feet, taking their picture of their own car and photoshopping it to make it look better.

Step 1:

I have started out with this picture that I have found on the internet of a Lamborghini Superleggera. You can take a picture of your car, or use any that you have, as long as it has a somewhat of a side profile.

Step 2:

We are going to first lower the car to make it have a more aggressive, mean look to it. Select only the body of the car (no wheels) using your favorite selection tool (for this, I like to use the Lasso tool). Note that you do not have to make a clean select as we can erase the others parts later. Make sure to select the top area as well. After selecting, copy the selected layer (Control + J).

Step 3:

Now you should have two layers, the bottom being the original car, and the top being the selected layer of the car. Now with the move tool, move the top layer down just a bit until the car feels like it is low enough. After this (if you did not make a clean selection), you should have some spots left over. Just simply erase them with a small soft brush until it matches with the original photo. You should have this by now. Looks better right?

Step 4:

Let’s change the color of the rear lights to “pop” the colors out more and make the red more radiant. Create a new layer and select (polygonal tool) each rear lights and go to Image > Adjustments > Selective Color. Put the color to “Red” and move the Cyan Bar towards the left (I used 100% as shown in the picture). Do this for all three lights and it should have a more radiant glow to it (and not grayscale).

Step 5:

Now, let’s change the color to a color that Lamborghini’s mostly have, Yellow. Select the car, and go to Image > Adjustments > Selective Color and move the sliders to this setting (picture) and also make sure the Colors are on “Neutral”. Modify if you would like a different color car.

Step 6:

Since we selected the whole car, now we need to delete a few things that do not match in the yellow color such as the windows, exhaust pipes, tail lights, and the rear grille. Using the polygonal lasso tool, select the two side windows, the side mirror, the three lights and the 6 grille spots and delete them to retain the original color.

Finished!

You should get this nice result after adding some text and some layer styles.

If you want more of a wallpaper like feel to the render, copy the layer and make a reflection of the image and do a slight 90 degree Motion Blur as shown above. Also, if you would like a background, do a two color circular gradient such as black and dark gray for a nice subtle background. Enjoy!