Drawing a Spoiler

• 1). Open a car photo in Photoshop by clicking "File," then "Open" and browsing to its location on your computer. Double-click the image so it appears on your workspace.
  
  
• 2). Click the "New Layer" icon, which looks like a bent sticky note, on the "Layers" palette. Notice a new "Layer 1" appears.
  
  
• 3). Click the "Eyedropper" tool on the "Tools" palette on the left side of the screen. Then click your cursor somewhere on the car to get the exact paint color, which you'll use to draw the spoiler. The top left, colored square in the "Color Picker" will change to the color of the car you just sampled.
  
  
• 4). Click the "Paintbrush" tool on the palette, then pull down the "Brush" menu at the top of the screen. Choose a solid round brush head such as #9, then hover your cursor over the screen and notice it changes into a hollow circle. Draw the outline of the spoiler on the back of the car.
  
  
• 5). Click the "Paint Bucket" tool, which looks like a tipping paint can, inside the spoiler's outline, which then fills with the same color paint.
  
  
• 6). Click the "Paintbrush" again and switch paint colors and brush heads; choose a very fine small brush head. Add accents such as racing stripes to the spoiler. (This step is optional.)
  
  
• 7). Double-click the Layer 1 line in the "Layers" palette to get the "Layer Styles" window. Check the "Drop Shadow" box, which will make your spoiler seem to have more dimension like the rest of the car. Optionally, check the "Outer Glow" box, which will make your spoiler look as if it has a ring of light around it.
  
  

Transferring a Spoiler

• 1). Open the two digital photos, one with a spoiler and one without, in Photoshop so they are tiled on your workspace. Click the photo of the car with the spoiler so it has focus.
  
  
• 2). Click the "Lasso" tool on the "Tools" palette on the left side of the screen. Draw a line around the spoiler. A dotted blinking line appears.
  
  
• 3). Press the "Ctrl" and "C" keys on your keyboard, this is the copy function. Click the other photo so it has focus, then press the "Ctrl" and "V" keys, which is the paste function. The cutout of the spoiler pastes onto the photograph.
  
  
• 4). Click the "Move" tool, which looks like a black arrow head and cross, then drag the spoiler into place onto the car. If it pasted in too large, click "Edit," then "Transform," then "Scale" and shrink it down into size.
  
  
• 5). Click the "Lasso" tool again and draw small lines around any extraneous background color that may have pasted in with the spoiler that you don't want on the car photo. When you see the blinking lines, press the "Delete" key on your keyboard, which removes the area you just circled.