Learn to Create Effect of Rapid Movement on Photoshop

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• Sportscar in Dublin

Step 1

Start by opening photo on Photoshop. Duplicate layer with Ctrl+J. With Polygonal Lasso Tool selected cut out the car from the copied layer.

Step 2

When you have car selected go to Select > Inverse and press Del. If you turn off the visibility of the layer with photo you should have something like this:

Step 3

Turn back on visibility of background layer. We’ll work with the background layer. Go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur:

Step 4

Select car layer and duplicate it with Ctrl+J. Go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur for the copied layer:

Select the Eraser Tool with soft-edged brush and erase the blurred layer in the hood area.

Merge layers with car by selecting both layers and pressing Ctrl+E.

Step 5

Now select the wheel rim area with the Polygonal Lasso Tool.

Copy selection to a new layer by pressing Ctrl+J.

Go to Edit > Transformer > Scale to scale the wheel rim to get something similar to my screenshot below.

Go to Edit > Transformer > Warp.

Still with wheel rim selected go to Select > Load Selection. After that apply Filter > Blur > Radial Blur with following settings:

Move wheel rim back to his place and apply Edit < Transformer > Warp again.

Step 6

Repeat step 5 all over for the other wheel rim in the back. In the end merge all layers except background layer and we will have only two layers.

Step7 

Duplicate layer with Ctrl+J. With Polygonal Lasso Tool selected cut out the car from the copied layer.

Step8

Apply Edit > Transform > Skew to this layer:

Step9

Change blending layer mode to Dissolve.

Step10

Finally set Opacity for this layer to 10%.

Step11

Select Eraser Tool with soft-edged brush and erase dust in the hood area and side of the car.

Step12

Duplicate layer with the car once more (Car Copy 2) and merge this layer with layer we’ve just been working on (Car Copy) . As a result we get three layers: background layer, layer with the car and the layer with processed car (it’s situated above others).

Step13

Select top layer and go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur.

Step14

Change blending layer mode to Lighten.

Step15

Select Eraser Tool with soft-edged brush again and erase the exposed part in hood area.

Step16

Merge all layers with the car and we will have again only two layers: background layer and car layer. Duplicate car layer using Ctrl+J and go to Filter > Liquify for copied layer.

On the end you should have something similar to what i have:

Step17

Change blending layer mode to Linear Dodge (Add).

Step18

Select Eraser Tool with soft-edged brush one more time and erase everything from the front side of the car.

Step19

Create a new layer on top. Go to Gradient Tool, select Transparent Rainbow (standard Photoshop gradient) and make sure option Linear Gradient is selected. Fill new layer with this gradient.

Step20

Go to Edit > Transformer > Warp with layer selected.

Step21

Select Eraser Tool with soft-edged brush one more time and erase gradient from the front side of the car.

Step22

Change blending layer mode to Overlay.

Final Image

Create a new layer, assign Soft Light blending mode for it. Pick up soft-edged brush and using the Brush Tool lighten the nearest headlight and the hood around the headlight and darken the edges of the image. To lighten we use white color (#ffffff), to darken – the black one (#000000). In the end set the layer opacity down to about 30%.

And our tutorial is finished.