Photoshop car tutorials: Change colour of car lights

This Car tutorial will teach you how to change the colour of car lights in Photoshop. You need to use the lens flare filter and hue/saturation tools for this tutorial. I have used a free stock image of a car which is available from: www.sxc.hu

Change colour of car lights

Step 1

Open an image of car in Photoshop.
Insert a new layer Ctrl + Shift + N.

Step 2

Take the paint brush tool with an appropriate brush size and paint the areas of the car lights in a black colour like below:

Step 3

Select Filter > Render > Lens Flare and move the crosshair to the centre of one of the black areas you painted. Now change the brightness to 70 % and the lens type to 105mm Prime.

Repeat this for the other black area you painted.

Step 4

Change the layer blending option to “Screen” like below:

Step 5

Select Image > Adjustment > Hue/Saturation and adjust the sliders to your liking. I have selected the following settings.

Hue: 255
Saturation: 100
Lightness: -7

Remember to check the Colorize checkbox.