Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

Posted by ranjith Wednesday, December 16, 2009

%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop
To start the tutorial we need 3 stock photos.
1. F1 car
2. The background road scene.
3. Fire (FreeFoto)

Open a document 600 x 425.
Position the road scene in the center.
%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

Place the edited F1 car.

Create a new layer, name it car shadow.

Next, make a shape with black fill as below. This will be the shadow of the F1 car.

Once the position of the car has been decided, hide the layer for now.

%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

To make some smoky environment we need to draw a shape as below in a new layer. Fill it with White color.

%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

Apply for both, Gaussian blur filter with below settings.

%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

Our background is ready. Lets place the F1 car now over these 2 layers. (shadow and smoke bg )

%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

Rotate the angle of the car to 25 to 30 degree. Leave it there.

We will be requiring 4 layers of this later. So keep a layer of this intact.

%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

Making the smoke effect.

Select a brush. In the setting panel change the master diameter to 20.

%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

Change the brush stroke Spacing to 60.
%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

Change the Size Jitter to 100%. Let remaining things be the same.
%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

Change the Scatter to 200% ,Count slider to 3.
%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

Now slide the foreground/background Jitter to max (100%)
%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

Draw with the brush as below. You can see the brush dots are in different sizes and in different white, greys and black.
%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop
Next got to the filter menu.

In the Blur filter, select Shape Blur. Select an ellipse shape or the shape (Bull’s eye shape).

Change the radius to 10. Click the preview box. See the smoke effect.
%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

Now lets take the fire stock image.

Draw a shape as below and apply 20px feathering. Copy this area and paste it over the F1 car.
%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

Rotate the fire to adjust to the angle of the car.

%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

Change the layer blending option to Screen.

%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

Duplicate the F1 car. Scale it about 130% to 140%. Let that layer be at the back.

%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

From the Blur filter, Select the Radial blur.

Change the amount of blur to 100. Make the blur method to Zoom.

%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

Results will be like below.

%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

Now to give a speed car toppling effect, lets give the car a blur effect.

For that we will use the same Radial blur. The difference is instead of zoom we will use Spin.

Duplicate the F1 car layer once again. Should not use on this layer . We need it later.
%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

Change the centre of blur by dragging it towards the bottom right corner as shown below. This is done because we don’t want only a heavy blur on this corner.
%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

Now change the blur amount to 2 – 3.
%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

See the result below.
%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

Now change the amount to 10. See the result below

%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

Now reveal the F1 original car layer which we hid.

%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

Change the layer blending option to Lighten.

The final result of hi speed car toppling with smoke and fire.

Hope you enjoyed it.

%photoshop Create a Smoky Car Crashing Shot in Photoshop

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