Carbon fibre hood in Photoshop

In this car tutorial you will learn how to create a carbon fibre hood in Photoshop. This process involves superimposing a texture of carbon fibre on top of the current hood of the car. You will need an image of a car and a image of carbon fibre for this tutorial.

Carbon fibre hood in Photoshop

Step 1

Open an image of a car in Photoshop.

Step 2

Make a selection around the hood of the car like below. You can either use the pen, polygon lasso or the quick mask tool.




Step 3

Copy the selection of the hood onto a new layer by selecting Ctrl + J.


Step 4

Open a texture of carbon fibre and then copy it and paste it into the image of a car. Select the Free transform tool (Ctrl + T) and resize the texture to the same as the hood. You can also use the perspective and distort tool to position the texture into place.




Step 5

Now return to your duplicated hood layer and choose Select > Load selection you should now the selection around the hood.




Step 6

Select your carbon fibre layer then choose Select > Inverse and hit the delete key. Deselect the layer by pressing Ctrl + D.


Step 7

Now change the blending styles to Overlay. Then select Image > Adjustment > Brightness/Contrast and adjust the value accordingly to your image.

Clear car lights

I recently wrote a tutorial about changing the colour of the car lights. However, in this tutorial I show you how give your car lights a clear look. This process is even simpler than changing the colour as only the channel mixer property needs to be adjusted.

Clear car lights

Step 1

Open an image of a car in Photoshop, use an image with has rear lights.

Step 2

Select the lasso tool or quick mask tool and make a selection around the areas of the car light like below:




Step 3

Select Image > Adjustment > Channel Mixer and check the Monochrome tab at the bottom of the pop-up window then click ok. You can adjust the constant slider which will increase/decrease the brightness of the clear colour.



You should now have clear car lights.


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Add hood scoop to car

This car tutorial will teach you how to add a hood scoop to a bonnet of a car. You will need an image of a car and an image of a hood scoop for this effect. I have used free stock images which are available from everystockphoto.com

Add hood scoop to car

Step 1

Open an image of a car.

And an image of a hood scoop in Photoshop.




Step 2

Select the lasso tool (L) and make a rough selection around the hood scoop like below:




Step 3

Choose Edit > Copy to copy the hood scoop then select your other image and select Edit > Paste. Now select the free transform tool Ctrl + T and resize the hood scoop to your preferred size. To get the hood scoop to the correct position, select Edit > Transform and choose either the skew or distort tools and adjust accordingly.




Step 4

Select the eraser tool and remove any access from the hood scope layer. Then select the smudge tool and blend in the edges. Now change the blending style to luminosity. You can experiment with the various blending styles if you wish.



You should now be able to add a hood scoop to car.


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