Hi. This is Marty from lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to make
a cool-looking, illustration of your favorite car from a regular photo.
Choose a side-view, photo of your favorite car.
If you'd like to use this photo of a Viper, I provided its link
in the video description or project files. Your car needs to be on a white
background.
In order to do this, you need to make a selection around your car,
invert the selection and fill it with white. I covered how to make selections
in many of my tutorials,
so I won't be going over it here. The size of this document
is 1280 by 720 pixels
with a resolution of 150 pixels per inch.
Make two copies of your image by pressing Ctrl + J
on Windows or Cmd + J on a Mac...
twice. We'll name the top layer
"Pencil" and the layer below it, "Color".
Click off the eyeballs of the top two layers to hide them
and click on the thumbnail of the bottom layer to make it active.
Click on the foreground color to open the Color Picker.
Next, to the "B" for Brightness, type in
90%. Then click OK or press Enter or Return.
Now, we have 90% gray as the foreground color.
We'll fill the background with the foreground color by pressing
Alt + Delete on Windows or Opt + Delete on a Mac.
Go to Filter and Filter Gallery.
Open the Texture folder and click
"Texturizer". Choose "Sandstone"
and make the "Scaling": 100%... the "Relief": 3...
and "Top" for "Light".
Then, click OK. This will give texture to the color
that we add later. Make the Pencil layer visible
an active. Remove all its color
by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + Shift + U.
To automatically apply the Levels command to your
image, press Ctrl or Cmd + Shift + L
to invoke "Auto-tone". Go back to Filter
and Filter Gallery. Close the Texture folder
and open "Stylize". Click
on "Glowing Edges". For this photo, I'll make the "Edge Width"
1... the "Edge Brightness": 6
and the "Smoothness": 7. For your photo,
experiment with these numbers to get similar results
as this. If you have white lines surrounding the edges,
remove them with your Pencil Tool. First,
press "D" on your keyboard to make the foreground and background colors
default to black and white. Choose a medium to large-sized tip
and make the Hardness, 100%. Now,
draw around the edges to cover the white lines. Invert your image
by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + I.
Make a copy of the Pencil layer
and name it, "Lines". Go to
Image, Adjustments and Threshold.
Slide the Threshold level
to the right until there's just enough lines to recognize it. For this example,
the Threshold is 215. Go to Filter
Blur and Motion Blur.
Make the Angle: 0
and the Distance between 900 and 950 pixels.
This will be our "speed lines". Change the Blend Mode
to "Darken". Make the Pencil layer active
and change its Blend Mode to "Darken", as well.
Make the Color layer visible an active.
Change its Blend Mode to "Linear light".
We're ready to add text. Make the top layer
active. We'll place our text above it.
Open your Horizontal Type Tool and choose a font.
I'm using "Batman Forever Alternate".
You can download it from Font-zone.com.
The Size is 70 points... Sharp...
Left Alignment... and the color is black.
Type out your text. To reposition it,
open your Move Tool and move it.
Reduce its "Fill" to 0%.
Click on the "fx" icon and choose
Bevel and Emboss. Make the Style: "Inner Bevel",
the Technique: "Chisel Hard"... the Direction:
"Up" and the Size: 0.
Check "Contour". Then, click OK.
Make a copy of the text and double-click
on Bevel and Emboss to open it in the Layer Style window.
Uncheck "Global Light" make the Angle:
minus 50 degrees and the Altitude:
25 degrees. Then, click OK.
I'd like to slide this text copy to the left and up,
so our press on the Left arrow on my keyboard...
4 times and the Up arrow 4 times.
Next, we'll add accent lines and then angle the entire word.
Make a copy of the top layer and go to
Layer, Rasterize and Layer Style.
Make a copy of it and name the top layer,
"Vertical lines" and the layer below it,
"Horizontal lines".
Go to Filter, Blur and Motion Blur.
Keep the Angle: 0 degrees and make the Distance:
90 pixels.
We'll repeat this for the vertical accent lines.
Make the "Vertical lines" layer active and go back to Filter,
Blur and Motion Blur. Go to the line
on the edge of the circle and press and hold "Shift"
as you rotate it until it snaps 90 degrees.
Then, click OK. Next we'll angle the entire word.
Shift-click on the bottom text layer to highlight all the layers
between it and the top, active layer.
Press Ctrl or Cmd + T to open your Transform Tool.
Go to the top, middle point and press and hold
Ctrl + Shift + Alt on Windows or
Cmd + Shift + Opt on a Mac. When you see this horizontal, double-arrow,
drag it to the right or left until you're happy with the angle.
Then, Press Enter or Return. To reposition it,
simply click on it and move it. I'd like to make the lines of the words
a bit stronger, but first let's place all the text layers into a folder.
Press Ctrl or Cmd + G.
I'll type in, "Text on top". We'll be adding text at the bottom
in a few minutes. Make a copy of the folder.
Because we have two of the same text layers on top of each other,
our text becomes stronger. Notice the difference
as I toggle back and forth. Next, we'll place the huge, cropped
name of the car at the bottom. Open your Type tool
and type out your text. Click on your Move Tool
and open Transform. Move the text to the corner
and go to the upper right corner of the Transform.
When you see a diagonal, double-arrow, press and hold
"Shift" as you drag it out. Make it as large as you want
and feel free to crop it if you like. Use the same steps as you did for the text
at the top.
The reason we just didn't enlarge the smaller text,
is because the lines would have gotten thicker and softer.
Next, we'll add this watercolor effect.
Make the "Text on top" copy active
and click on the New Layer icon to make a new layer above it.
Click on the foreground color and click on a color of your car
to pick up that particular color. Then,
click OK. Open your Brush Tool
and click on the arrow next to the point size. Click on the gear
icon and choose, "Wet Media Brushes".
Click OK to see just this set in the thumbnail window.
Click on the gear icon again and choose,
"Large List". Scroll down
and choose a watercolor brush. For this example,
I'll choose, "Watercolor Fat Tip".
To make your brush larger, press the right bracket key on your keyboard.
The size of this brush is 300 pixels.
Now, brush across the bottom of your document.
I'll brush across once more a little higher.
This is Marty from
Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!