HUSSEIN AL-ATTAR
PHOTOSHOP RENDERING

Hussein continues his tutorial here showing a good technique creating a moving road surface.  This can help give your renders a real feeling of speed and movement.  Much more exciting than a static image!

 

We can now start working on the details. The headlights, the placement of the rims, and as you will have noticed I have changed the contrast of the cars body against the background. This step is not necessary. I just got bored of the colour. If you are satisfied with the colour you started with, then just skip this step. If not then play with IMAGE > ADJUSTMENT > LEVELS or IMAGE > ADJUSTMENT > HUE/SATURATION. I also started working here on the background, playing around with the Burn and Dodge tools.

Now we are going to start working on the environment, or to be more specific, the street. Pick a small brush (1-3px) and draw some random lines or forms like the ones you see here. Of course do this on a new layer.

Its time to reduce the opacity of the sketch after marking the main highlight and shadow areas. Under the layer of the cars body, create a new layer for the shadows. To create these, as before we will have to take the same boring steps, select the area and fill it.
 

Once you have put down some random lines use the Motion Blur filter (set to maximum) to soften the effect, and give it some direction.

Place the layer with your random lines under the layer containing the shadows and using IMAGE > TRANSFORM adjust the layer until it looks like it is part of the street. This is important in giving the whole image a feeling of speed. If you are working on a rendering of a parked car you obviously wont need to use this and the previous two steps. Just skip them.

You can see here that I have added the light to the headlamps. Create a new layer for this. Using the pen tool, create a path and then RIGHT CLICK > STROKE PATH > BRUSH. Before doing this you will have to define a line thickness by choosing a brush that has the correct diameter. We will take white as the light colour. Now double click on the layer to open the Layer Style window. Select the Outer Glow option and choose blue as the glow colour.