Saturday 11 October 2008

Undercar lighting in Photoshop

This Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to create undercar lighting. This gives the effect of coloured light, which is underneath the car. I have used a free stock image of a car which is available at: www.sxc.hu.

Undercar lighting in Photoshop

Step 1


Open an image of a car in Photoshop. Using an image of a car in darker background (night time) is particularly effective, but an image in a lighter background is still acceptable.

Step 2

Select the polygon lasso tool and make a selection around the underneath of the car. You image should look something like below:



Step 3

Select Shift + Ctrl + N to create a new layer. And use the paint bucket tool to fill in your selected area. I used #4549f8 colour, but you can use whatever colour you wish.

And now choose Select > Feather give a 5 pixel feather radius and click ok.
Choose Select > Inverse and hit the delete key 4 times. This soften up the edges of the filled area. And deselect the image by selecting Ctrl + D. You image should look like below:



Step 4

I lower the opacity to 60%, but you can leave your image as it is, if you wish.



You should now have a car with under lighting.


Related tutorials
Add lights to any car
Tint car window
Change colour of any car

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