Chapter 3
Creating Motion
STEP 11: Press-and-hold the Option (PC: Alt) key and click on the Add Layer Mask icon to add a black layer mask to the motion blur layer, which completely hides the layer. It’s still there, we just can’t see it. Then get the Brush tool, and with your Foreground color set to white, paint the motion blur layer back in only on the car in the lower left.
STEP 12: Lastly (and this is purely artistic), I imagined the entire image having a blue tint to it, so we’ll do this by adding a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. Click on the Create New Adjustment Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers panel and choose Hue/ Saturation from the pop-up menu. Then, turn on the Colorize checkbox at the bottom of the Adjustments panel and it’ll apply a tint to the entire photo. Drag the Hue slider to 217 to add a blue tint and then drag the Saturation slider to 32. We now have the background photo prepped and ready for the motorcycle. At this point, it’s probably a good idea to go to File>Save and choose Photoshop from the Format pop-up menu to save this as a PSD file, so you’re covered just in case.
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