Car Photo Retouching Tutorials

This visual tutorial shows a quick and ease method for creating photo-realistic racing tape on headlight using the pen tool in Photoshop.

This tutorial describes how to amalgamate several images to quickly describe a design direction or create a bodykit for an existing car using parts from other donor cars.

This tutorial shows how to manipulate a car photograph in Photoshop to create an illustration of a golden Steampunk vehicle.

This photo retouching visual tutorial explains how to create a chrome effect on a car body.

This photo retouching tutorial shows how to apply a golden foil cover to the body surface of an Aston Martin creating a photorealistic effect.

This tutorial explains how to apply a texture to a car in Photoshop. In this case the result is an original orange-skinned Porsche.

This tutorial describes some cutting and blending techniques used when reating collages from multiple photographs.

This visual tutorial shows how to create a high quality motion effect on an existing car wheel image using different layers in Adobe Photoshop.

An effective technique to turn a dark-painted car into a chromed one.

This tutorial shows an effective way to change the car body color using the’Replace Color’ tool in Photoshop.

This tutorial shows how to create a realistic transparent hood effect by blending two reference photos.

This tutorial shows how to turn a painted hood into a carbon fiber one, including the creation of a basic texture.

In this short article illustrator Brendan McCaffrey describes his technique for adding a realistic lens flares effect to his images.

This tutorial shows a quick and effective way to add realistic vinyl graphics to a car in Adobe Photoshop.

This tutorial shows how to create a convincing neon under car effect in Photoshop by working with shadows.

How to create a carbon-fiber hood from scratch, including the texture pattern and lighting tips.

How to change the body colour of a car without losing highlights and reflections.

How to replace both the front spoiler and headlights with different ones. In the example the author creates a Bentley with a BMW front-end.