Photoshop Tutorial: Pimp the color of a car image using photoshop

Source: http://www.tutorialman.com/tutorials/customize_color_of_car/ In this tutorial you will learn to convert an image of ordinary car to colorful one after making necessary editing in photoshop. Follow the steps as shown below:

1) Select an image of a car as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1.

2) Let us select polygon lasso tool as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2.

3) Now let us select the bumper with the help of polygon lasso tool as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3.

4) Now keeping the bumper selected right click inside the image and click on Layer via Copy. This will duplicate the image in to a new layer. Now we go to Edit - Free transform and let us lengthen the image so that the front bumper height has increased as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4.

5) Now let us do the same editing on the rear bumber also, so that the rear bumber's length is also increased and drops down further as shown in figure 5.

Figure 5.

6) Now you can see that both front bumper have been altered slightly as shown in figure 6.

Figure 6.

7) Now let us apply neon glow below car, to do it use Pen tool and select the area as shown in figure 7.

Figure 7.

8) To apply 0% on the layer click on the element as shown in figure 8.

Figure 8.

9) Now right click on the layer and choose "Blending options" and select "Gradient Overlay" from the list and enter the values as shown in figure 9.

Figure 9. 10) In "Gradient Editor" enter the values as shown in figure 10. Figure 10. 11) Now let us select the wheel with the Marquee tool as shown in figure 11and right click inside the wheel and make a duplicate layer. Now let us make the wheel a bit bigger. Add free transform and make the wheel bigger as shown in figure 12. Do the same thing with other wheel also. . Figure 11. Figure 12. 12) After making the wheels larger the car would be as shown in figure 13. Figure 13. 13) Now let us fill the windows with black color. Use your Lasso tool to select the windows then use paint bucket tool to fill color. After filling the windows with black color the image would be as shown in figure 14 . Figure 14. 14) Now let us paint the upper body of the car. Select brush tool with blurred edges with color #a186be and paint the upper half as shown in figure 15. Figure 15. 15) Now let us select HUE option from layers menu and the image would be as shown in figure 16 . Figure 16. 16) Now let us create flames like image in front of the car. Let us use the Pen tool for this as shown in figure 17. Figure 17. 17) Remember to use Add Anchor point as it would be possible to get fine edges. After creating the flame press Ctrl+D and the resultant image would be as shown in figure 18. Figure 18. 18) Now let us select HUE from the layers paletter and the resultant image would be as shown in figure 19. Figure 19.

Photoshop Tutorial: Plastic Tab

Source: http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/interfaces/plastic-tabs/

1.) Start with a new image about 400×400 px with a white background. Create a new layer and using the Rectangular Marquee tool draw a rectangle roughly the size of the example below।

2.) Click the Channels tab to enter the Channels Palette, and create a New Channel. Fill the selection in with white, then deselect (CTRL+D). Now go to Filter » Blur »Gaussian Blur and use a setting of about 3.5, then click OK. Next go to Image » Adjust » Levels and drag the two bottom triangles towards the center until the button looks nice and smooth (see image)। Click OK when done. Hold CTRL and click on the channel “Alpha 1″ to select it, then click the Layers Tab. Do not lose the selection.

3.) Set your foreground color to: R:212 G:214 B:212 and the background to white. Now, using the Linear Gradient tool (foreground to background), drag from the top of the selection to the bottom, so that it looks similar to the example below. Now create a New Layer and set your foreground color to R:192 G:192 B:192. Go to Edit » Stoke - for width choose 1 pixel and for location choose Center। Do not deselect yet.

4.)Now, with the Rectangular Marquee tool selected, move the selection up to the top of the button so that it overlaps slightly (see picture). Now create a new layer and fill that selection in with white. Click on the Channels palette, hold CTRL and click on “Alpha 1″ to load the selection. Click the Layers tab and now go to Select » Inverse. Hit delete. press CTRL+D to deselect. Now go to Filter » Blur » Guassian Blur and use a setting of 0।3. Click OK and set the Opacity of that layer down to 74.

5.) It should be looking pretty good at this point, but to add to the effect add a drop shadow to the layer with the original button shape on it (Layer 1). Also go to Layer » Effects » Inner Shadow and use the settings shown in the image below। You should now have a nice plastic tab ready to add some text to.

6.) Select the Type Tool and add some text to your button. To give the text some extra depth, you can also add a very faint drop shadow to the text itself for a nice effect. To change the color go to Image » Adjust » Hue/Saturation।

7।) Apply the same tutorial to other shapes - you’ll get some neat effects.