Luxury retro car poster with paint splashing effect

ok now i will tell you how to create a retro car poster in photoshop.

• Create a new document in Photoshop.
• Download Talbot-Lago car *Png file.

• Open road image.
• Increase Image Canvas size in 3 times.
• Duplicate road layer 3 tames and merge created layers to make road longer.

• Add Layer Mask and fill it with reflected black&white gradient just like on screen shot.

• Apply Motion Blur filter to the road (Filter > Blur > Motion Blur).

• Apply Distort transformation to blurred road just like on the image below.

• Add layer mask.
• Apply to right edge huge soft round black color brush in the Mask.

• Apply Luminosity Blending Mode to road layer.
• Fill bottom background layer with linear white/gray linear gradient.

• Apply Opacity 80 for road blurred layer and merge it with background layer.
• Insert Sky image. Apply Auto Contrast. Image > Adjustments > Auto Contrast.
• Go to Image > Adjustments > Levels (move black left and white right markers to center a little bit).

• Add Layer Mask and Erase bottom part of sky background using smooth Eraser tool

• Insert Illustrator decorative lines.

• Insert car image. Duplicate it.

• To create car motion effect, apply Motion blur to the bottom car layer.

• You should get something like this, apply small Perspective transformation to it.

• Apply Screen Blending Mode and Opacity 75 to it.
• Erase front area of the blurred layer.

• Insert paint splash image.

• Make it black & white: Image > Adjustments > Black & White > Maximum White, set Red channel like on the screen shot.

• This is black and white paint splash.

• Apply Horizontal Flip transformation to it. Edit > Transformation > Flip Horizontal.

• Place Splash layer below car layer.

• Rotate splash like in the example below.

• Correct color balance for paint splash to make it similar car body color.
• Image > Adjustments > Selective color. Play with setting to get best result.

• Erase right part of splash for use it in others areas of the car body.

• Create a new empty layer above car body layer and mask border between splash and car body using small brush with following settings:

• To choose right colors faster, use Eyedropper Tool. Keep active Brush Tool and click "Alt" shortcut.

• In order to make solid color process created spot with Blur Tool.

• You may get the same result using Stamp Tool.
• Make visible right part of the paint splash and repeat previous actions.

• You can make various splashes using Warp transformations and Liquify filter. Play with color balance splashes and Levels.

• Merge car body with splashes.
• Make color balance of the car wit splashes cooler using selective color settings.

• Add small paint drops using round brush with size dynamic settings.

• Use following settings.

• Duplicate background(landscape) layers and merge them.
• Place created layer above tree("Beanstalk") layer.
• Load selection for tree layer.
• Copy selected area and paste it above tree layer.

• Apply layer style effect to paint drops.

• Add Splatter effect using splatter brush to the front wheel.

• Merge all layers. Apply Auto Contrast.
• Create new white layer with Fill=0.

• Apply Gradient Overlay to it.

• Merge layers again.
• Correct levels just like in the example below.

• Apply Gradient Overlay to merged layer.

• You may add vintage effect. Insert old paper texture, make it black & white, apply Soft Light Blending Mode and Opacity 40.

And here is result, click to make it larger.

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