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Step 1: Grab a car of your choice. I just used the first car I came across. Take the Elliptical Marquee
tool and select the front tire and fender area. Copy and Paste this as a new layer.
Step 2: Move the new layer out to your liking. Too far will look animated so don't over do it. Now drop the opacity
of the layer down so you can see the background through your new layer. Grab the Polygonal Lasso tool
and outline the areas you don't want to keep. Hit the Delete key.
Step 3: Bring the Opacity back up to 100%. Now take the Smudge tool and blend the layer into
your background. Stay close to your outer edges when smudging and don't worry too much about body lines or covering things
like blinkers on the background layer. Take the Polygonal Lasso tool again and outline the blinkers,
excess parts not needed and any extra little unwanted pieces that might have been missed the first time. Delete
these as well.
Step 4: Now you can do the same thing to the back wheel. Make sure to select your background layer, then start with
the Elliptical Marquee tool and outline the rear wheel and surrounding fender. Copy
and Paste this as a new layer.
Step 5: Move the new layer out to match the width of your first fender, or where ever you want. Drop the Opacity down
to see the background, and then you can take the Polygonal Lasso tool to select the unwanted areas.
Delete these.
Step 6: Bring the opacity back to 100%. Since the gas tank door is in the way for this one, I'm going to eliminate
it. Outline the back area of the car with the polygonal lasso. Take the Brush
with a small dia. and low transparency and match a color next to the gas tank cover. Fill over the lines and blend the paint
to match. Deselect (Ctrl+D) area and blend again as neccessary. Select the Line
tool and touch up any door lines, body seams or reflections that might need touching up at this time.
Step 7: Because of the wide body, and there's still some of the original tire showing from the backround, we'll widen
the rear tire. With the Polygonal Lasso, outline the bottom part of the rear tire. Copy
and Paste this. Select the Move tool (pointer) and use the arrow key on your keyboard to move
it over to your liking. I had to rotate this one a tad to keep the shadow and perspective lined up.
That's it! For an extra effect you can also scale your wheels and tires larger when you copy and paste them. Sometimes I'll
scale just the fenders and leave the tires the same size to get a lower stance on the car without the wheel looking like it's
tucked too far under the fender.
At this point I like to save my work and then flatten the image so I can modify the paint and still include the flares.
Modify as neccessary.
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