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.
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