We’ve seen how Photoshop has been extensively used in areas like web designing and beauty photo retouching. In today’s post, we bring you into another stretch where Photoshop also rules and dominates – the modding and sketching of rides.
This following article is dedicated to car lovers, forumites who use car photos as signatures, web designers or anyone who fascinates nice rides. We search the Internet and here we put forward some of the best Photoshop tutorials with techniques on how to mod a car. Full list after jump.
Colors Manipulation
Chrome your car
Gives your car body that chrome effect. Works better with black default.
Color Tweak The Ferrari
This tutorial make use of an additional mask and give your car a color change on the fly by applying different color blending options.
How to make Car Advertisement Mock-ups
Get your car air brushed with any color, or design. But before that, Thomas Baekdal suggest you give it the right base color.
Add Flaming Decals to a Modern Car Design
This tutorial will explain the steps needed to turn this boring Prius into an awesome street racer.
Body and Parts Enhancements
Porsche digital rendering photoshop tutorial
How to render a low quality digital car photo into a high quality output.
Give your car a little wood
Here is one way to take a simple texture and apply it to a shaped object like a car and have it appear to follow the body contours.
Create a real life "Cars"
How to create a real CARS of your own cars.
Vanity License Plate
How to create a custom vanity license plate using a few basic Photoshop tools a piece of reference material and some creative layer stylings.
Car Enhancement with Digimods
Folks at Digimods have a comprehensive list of Photoshop tutorials covers almost everything you will want to mod on a ride. From adding a bad boy bonnet, carbon fibre bonet to lowering the car, changing the wheels and much more!
Freehand and Sketching
Concept car sketch Photoshop Tutorial
This tutorial describes how to render this car with paths, and finishes the paints with later masks and filters.
Drawing a Car Lineart in Photoshop
Draw the lineart of this Mclaren F1 using paths. You are required to have some experience in using Photoshop’s Pen tool to be able to draw this car in detail.
Photoshop Rendering
Photoshop rendering in Photoshop by Emre Husmen, a 20 year old Turkish design student, also the 2004 Peugeot Design Contest finalist.
Rapid Development Sketching
"In this tutorial it is assumed that you already have a design theme worked out and know roughly what your car will look like. Ideally you would be working over a photo of a clay or screenshot of an alias model. I have chosen a supercar to show the methods used here because the forms are exaggerated and it is easier to see how they are being rendered." Miles Waterhouse
Vector Car Tutorial
This tutorial guides you through creating a vector toon based Veilside’s Fortune RX7 from scratch.
Dramatic Effects
Create a truck coming from a flame
Create a Acura commercials simmilar effect where a truck came out from the flame.
Super Slick Lighting Effects
Learn how to combine photos and brush strokes to give a car photo slick dusky lighting effects.
How To Create An Amazing Car Illustration
How to create a fierce car illustraton making use of different type of brushes.
Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot
"We have another tutorial this week in which we will learn some menus of blur filter, which will help us create smoke effect. We will also cover up some brush technique too to make this smoke effect."
Video Tutorials
Photoshop Car Tuning – 65 videos and 3 how-to articles to learn all about Photoshop car tuning, by wonderhowto.com
YouTube – Tons of great video tutorials are hidden within YouTube. We attempt to pull out some of the best for you, sorted by view count.
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Comments
AtiKuSDesign September 24th, 2009
There’s some really cool tutorials amongst this list. I’ll be trying some of these out
Replyrobb September 25th, 2009
i find most of the sketching tutorial are awesome.
Replyand coloring as well.
kudos for sharing.
ali September 25th, 2009
OMG your tutorials are simply amazing thanks for sharing
Replythis awesome stuff
Stigg September 25th, 2009
The driver’s side door on the lineart drawing under Drawing a Car Lineart in Photoshop is backwards; it has the sideview mirror pointing into the car, as well as the door curve over the glass going the wrong way; it’s obvious it was flipped. It looks very very wrong!
Replysteppinout September 25th, 2009
This list are AWESOME
ReplyKangoMedia September 25th, 2009
Thanks Hongkiat for the list. I’ve been looking for a way to “test-drive” my vehicle wrap. Great post.
Replykaspersky key September 25th, 2009
Wooo amazing………..!
ReplyTech Maish September 25th, 2009
Really very nice and attractive cars
ReplyAliah Lee September 25th, 2009
nice tutorial but i don’t think i can follow it because it is a pro job. hurm
ReplyDinesh September 25th, 2009
Me also. Isn’t this amazing.
ReplyRahul - Web Guru September 25th, 2009
Quite impressive… how about pimping my moter cycle. ;)
ReplyMin Thu September 25th, 2009
Very amazing to see those work. :) Really great…!
Replyjavo September 25th, 2009
Excelente!! muy buen material, Photoshop, realmente es lo mazximo, muchos saludos y suerte.
ReplyTony September 26th, 2009
These are really great…keep up the good work.
ReplyRedstage Magento September 26th, 2009
These tutorials are amazing. Thanks for sharing them all!
ReplyPageMEME September 26th, 2009
Great Post, shared on PageMEME. Keep it up!
Replynike air force 1 September 26th, 2009
it is great.
ReplyLeather Furniture Wholesale September 26th, 2009
Great touch!
ReplyJJ September 26th, 2009
Great and impressive, like to learn photoshop.
Replykenwooi September 28th, 2009
cool tips! =)
Replytest September 28th, 2009
dfsdf
Replypesho September 28th, 2009
Thanks
Replyso amazing
sriganesh September 28th, 2009
very nice, i have made a design like this before, but dontknow we can make different style. i am going to try it. :)
Replyb/w- thanks without your help i never upgraded my blog and made a good run in this field. thanks buddy
Mars September 29th, 2009
wow, those are nice tutorials
ReplyHan Cheng September 29th, 2009
Nice effects on those cars!!!
ReplyMichael Grove September 29th, 2009
Nice article dude! Now there a couple of hours work ahead :D
ReplyGepalex October 2nd, 2009
Awesome cars here!
http://gepalex.deviantart.com/art/High-Tech-Ferrari-Final-Pack-134915679
Replyjason October 3rd, 2009
wow.. amazing transformation.. must learn this trick
Replyasdasd October 4th, 2009
look like shit
ReplyChelle October 5th, 2009
I love the one where you turn your car into a person, thanks to my 6 year old we’ve seen that movie about two hundred too many times :) I might have to touch up my minivan, most of these cars are way too cool for me!
Replyyo October 8th, 2009
http://www.notitodo.com.ar/
Replyaero October 8th, 2009
amazing idea and great collection. thanks for share.
ReplyLuis Lopez October 12th, 2009
Thanks, I’ve seen the second dramatic effect before, is just awesone, great recopilation, this has been featured here:
http://www.conceptopixel.com/2009/10/marcadores-creativos-octubre-2009.html
Thank you, is time for re-photoshop my dad’s car ;)
Replylycoolthai October 22nd, 2009
oh man!
this is awesome!
ReplyETM October 28th, 2009
Awesome collection… I really need to work to get to that level…
ReplyCarsten November 10th, 2009
Wow. What a great collection. My fav is give your car al little wood. Amazing.
Replyadobe basics November 12th, 2009
nice long list of cars i like that.
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