I have very little experience with Photoshop when it comes to customizing images, but I do know some basics from the training I received at work. I came across a tutorial for transforming a picture of a car into one of the cars from the movie Cars.

Because I thought it was cute, I gave it a try. The steps on the tutorial could go into more detail for some of us who aren’t that great with Photoshop, but I managed to figure things out. I probably could have done better, but I’m satisfied with how it turned out and glad I was able to learn something new. Plus, my son enjoyed seeing it; he loves the movie. As I was adding the eyes to the car, he immediately mentioned the movie.

For my car, I used a picture of David’s Mitsubishi Eclipse that I had taken a few years ago. Since it was raining, the car has a wet look to it. I would have preferred a nicer picture, but I had to work with what I had. For the eyes and mouth, I went with Lightning McQueen because he’s a red car and I knew it would be less of a challenge of getting it to blend in. Click on the preview on the right to view the full image.

A couple other people have tried this as well. I didn’t know this at first, but one of them (Adam) is the one who created the theme I added to my website just yesterday! Anyway, here’s Adam’s car and here’s the other one by Shawn from Sporadic Nonsense. They both did much better than I did, because I’m a beginner at this and don’t have much experience at all. Good job you two!