Basically you want to set your camera up on a tripod for the different shots and make sure it doesn’t move. You can move the image around in ps if the camera gets bumped, but if the camera moves a lot, the images get hard to line up. The best way to avoid this is use a remote shutter button.

After you think you’ve taken enough images to light the car, open up one of the images in ps. Let’s call it the base image. It doesn’t really matter which one. Next, you need to import the rest of your images into that document in separate layers. You can just copy and paste or use file> place.

Your base image needs to have the blend mode set to ‘normal.’ Each layer above that needs to have its blend mode set to ‘lighten.’ What this does is add the lighter spots in each image to your base image, but doesn’t affect the darker areas.

You can control where your light goes by either erasing parts of your lighten layers or use layer masks. I recommend using masks because it’s non-destructive, and you can go back if you don’t like it.

I hope all that made sense. I’m going to try to make a video of the Photoshop technique. I’ll post a link to it when we get it done. Wish we could have included the editing in the video, but it was getting too long, and we didn’t want to put people to sleep :)

I’ve had a few people comment on the truck lol. I installed all of the lights, they’re not factory. They came in handy to deal with the traffic as we were doing our chase shots!

Peace

And sweet truck!

Thanks for sharing!