Creating Out of Bounds Sport Car Wallpaper

Of the several types of cars in the game Need for Speed, Mazda RX8 is one type that I like, in addition to the sporty body also toughness to win every race. In this tutorial we’ll create a wallpaper with the car as if shot out of a photo.

Final Result Preview

Before starting the steps, we first see the image we will create. Click here to view the actual size.

Step 1

The very first step is download this sport car images and then open in photoshop.

Step 2

Next we started making the photo frame, start by creating a new layer named ‘frame’. Create a rectangular selection with the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) and then using the Paint Bucket Tool (G) fill the selection area with white #FFFFFF.

Step 3

Press Ctrl+click on ‘frame’ layer to load selection. Go to Select>Modify>Contract to minimize the size of the selection. Fill contract by 20 px. Next remove the white color in this selection area, you can press delete or go to Layer>Layer Mask>Hide Selection.

Step 4

Press Ctrl+T then right click on the document and select Perspective. Drag the top right corner slightly to the left automatically the top left will shift slightly to the right.

Step 5

Perform a transformation again as the previous step but now we use the Distort. Drag the top right edge to bottom left and lower right corner to bottom right diagonal direction.

Step 6

Next use the Pen Tool (P) to create a path around the outside of the frame and car.

Step 7

Now remove image outside the path. Press Ctrl+enter to make selection, activate the car layer and then select Layer>Layer Mask>Reveal Selection.

Step 8

Remove white lines that cover the car image, could the Eraser Tool (E) or with a Layer Mask.

Step 9

Create a new layer behind all layers and fill with white.

Step 10

As a last step we will give the shadows on the frame. There are several steps to make it. First add a new layer above the layer we created in step 9. Create a selection like the following picture and then fill the area with black #000000.

Drag the shadow layer with the Move Tool (V) slightly downward and to the right. Change the fill layer opacity to 60% and then give a little blur on the layer, click Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur, set the four pixels as the radius.

Final Result

Another example with the same trick.

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