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How do you lift a truck using photoshop?

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whizzed Answered:

Use the layers I guess I would

Posted 4 years ago

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Roy Answered:

You need two photos, one of the scene with the truck, and one without. Take them both with a tripod, so they are as similar as possible. The empty shot will give you the material you need to fill in the spot where the truck was in the other one. Try to do this in the middle of the day, so the position of the shadows won't seem wrong when you raise the truck up.

Using either a mask or the polygonal lasso tool (zoomed in pretty far), separate the truck from the background. Once you have the truck in a new layer, you can put it where ever you want. Then, put the blank image behind the one you took the truck out of. Use a low hardness, large eraser to remove enough of the front scene to blend them together. You should now have a truck, and a pair of layers that look like the blank scene, but with a mysterious truck shadow. Position the truck wherever looks right, and you're done.

If you want someone lifting the truck, you'll need to have a person standing in yet a third shot, holding something large (like a sheet of cardboard) over their head to get the right shadows.

Good luck.