How to lower your car using photoshop

DrunkSaru · Jan 25, 2007

How to lower your car using photoshop

Before I start, I just wanted to say that I am using mattaveli's pic as my demo without his permission. I hope its OK with you mattaveli. Anyway here goes.

**Note** - There are many ways of Photoshopping a picture. The way described below is in my opinion the fastest, easiest, and most effective way of doing things.

As always having a high resolution picture to start off with is always better. This tutorial will probably take no more than an hour but more likely 30minutes if you are somewhat used to Photoshop. The whole idea of this tutorial is to take everything below the car and raising it up. Keep reading and you will understand.

First!! Open the photo in photoshop. hehe~

Next, observe the picture and figure out what areas you can cut out without making it too obvious to the viewer that you cut out a part of the picture. I've marked in red the areas where I thought I could kinda get away with.

Using the Polygon Lasso Tool, I have selected the whole bottom area of the car including the wheels and tires. You could use the Magnetic lasso tool or other selection tools but the polygon seem to be the easiest and most accurate way of doing it.

**note** I have highlighted the area in RED so you get a better idea of where i selected.

Now copy that area and paste it as a new layer.

This time, using the Polygon Lasso tool again, select only the car's body and copy and paste on a new layer. Make sure the car's body layer is above the previous ground layer.

You should now have two layers as pictured above besides the background (original picture) layer.

Now Take the ground layer and raise it up. You will start to see your car looking like its being lowered. You're probably getting excited at this point if this is your first time.

Now observe the red areas i have marked. These areas (for this particular picture) may look a little odd due to the pictures overlapping. To fix this, Just use the eraser tool to erase the areas you really don't need.

Near the tire, the car's body layer overlapped the tire a little so I erased a bit of the body layer to make the tire and wheel look right.

The 2 side areas, I used the eraser tool, made the edge of the eraser a bit softer and erase away till the two layers looked like it was blended together.

The bottom area looks like it was duplicated due to the ground layer being moved up. That we can get rid of by just cropping the whole picture so that we don't have the original bottom portion of the pic... which brings us to our next picture.

Hey Guess what, you're done. Lets recap, used only the polygon lasso tool and eraser, spent some time accurately selecting areas and the moving those areas. Pretty easy eh?

Hope this helped.