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The idea's simple... make Mike's big, black Mercury Sable look like it's flying down some German roa...

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First, I use the Lasso tool, in your toolbar (the tall, skinny floating bar) to cut the background o...

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I open another picture, this one of a creek, and paste the Merc into a new Layer. Think of layers as...

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Here's the Sable on the forest background. Notice how the road doesn't come to the end of the pictur...

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Turning off the car layer lets you see the layers behind it. I use lasso, select some treeline area,...

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I use the Motion Blur Filter to add movement to the background. Here's the Mercury back in the pictu...

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Using the lasso again, I selected the road and used the Motion blur to create the image of a speedin...

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Now the wheels were selected using the Ellipse selection tool. A little radial blur, and the car is ...

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I used the lasso tool to select the rear of the car to blur with some Motion filter, and used the te...

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Now, I select the highlit roof and winshield, cut, create a new layer, and paste them onto it. By cl...

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The topless Sable was darkened using the Contrast/Brightness tool in the Adjust menu on the top of P...

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With the top visible, I adjusted it's contast as well. This was done to give the two areas different...

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To make the Merc really look like it's in it's new home, I took a chunk of the trees, pasted it onto...

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I took the "island", made copies, and put them where the reflections will go. Use Eraser, Smudge, an...

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Double-click on the Layers your islands are in (in the Layer Pallette) and turn their opacity down. ...

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Filters-Render-Lens Flare will give you the effect needed for the headlights. At this point, you wil...

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After you have flattened the image, you can add the Lens Flare, and I added in Mike's callsign, "aud...