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Photoshopping a Photo

From 1993 Ford Taurus “Marilyn”, documented by Truthworldwide.

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1993 Ford Taurus - The idea's simple... make Mike's big, black Mercury Sable look like it's flying down some German road at night. Right now, she's cooling he… 1993 Ford Taurus - First, I use the Lasso tool, in your toolbar (the tall, skinny floating bar) to cut the background out of the picture. 1993 Ford Taurus - I open another picture, this one of a creek, and paste the Merc into a new Layer. Think of layers as overlapping panes of glass. some you c… 1993 Ford Taurus - Here's the Sable on the forest background. Notice how the road doesn't come to the end of the picture. We'll use the Blur tool to make it f… 1993 Ford Taurus - Turning off the car layer lets you see the layers behind it. I use lasso, select some treeline area, and delete to create the tops of the t… 1993 Ford Taurus - I use the Motion Blur Filter to add movement to the background. Here's the Mercury back in the picture. 1993 Ford Taurus - Using the lasso again, I selected the road and used the Motion blur to create the image of a speeding landscape. Funny how the big Merc loo… 1993 Ford Taurus - Now the wheels were selected using the Ellipse selection tool. A little radial blur, and the car is in motion. 1993 Ford Taurus - I used the lasso tool to select the rear of the car to blur with some Motion filter, and used the teardrop-shaped Blur tool in the toolbar… 1993 Ford Taurus - Now, I select the highlit roof and winshield, cut, create a new layer, and paste them onto it. By clicking on the eveball in the Layers pal… 1993 Ford Taurus - The topless Sable was darkened using the Contrast/Brightness tool in the Adjust menu on the top of PS's screen. (Whoo baby! Take it ALL off… 1993 Ford Taurus - With the top visible, I adjusted it's contast as well. This was done to give the two areas different light values, instaed of one big and g… 1993 Ford Taurus - To make the Merc really look like it's in it's new home, I took a chunk of the trees, pasted it onto it's own layer, and moved it so it wou… 1993 Ford Taurus - I took the "island", made copies, and put them where the reflections will go. Use Eraser, Smudge, and Blur tools, along with the Transform… 1993 Ford Taurus - Double-click on the Layers your islands are in (in the Layer Pallette) and turn their opacity down. The three islands are now in the 15-25%… 1993 Ford Taurus - Filters-Render-Lens Flare will give you the effect needed for the headlights. At this point, you will have to flaten the image to make it w… 1993 Ford Taurus - After you have flattened the image, you can add the Lens Flare, and I added in Mike's callsign, "audiophan", the Mercury logo, and my tag.…