Adding motion to static image

In Photoshop? Photoshop isnt an animation program. You could fake it by adding a motion blur but the car isnt going to actually move.

As 'weed' pointed out, you are better off not using Photoshop. Imageready that comes with newer versions is perhaps more up your alley.

sina
london

a very vague q indeed

I think what is being asked is how can I make it look like the car is moving not how can I make the car move animated?

If so, you need to use motion blur and probably set the angle to 0. Then just enter the amount of motion you want. Now this will blur both the front and back of the car, what you will need to do is delete the part of the blur that you do not want (probably the front of the car), so I would recommend that you make a duplicate layer of the car image to perform the blur on and remove everything from that layer but the car, for example remove any background behind the car as you do not want that blurred.

This should put you in the right direction if I've understood the question. You may also have to play around with the layer opacity of the blurred image to blend it in with the 'still' car to look natural.

Regards,
Peter Witham

You are on the right track Peter.  Though the result wasn't what I wanted.  What I would like to do is something like this http://www.idex.net/index.html.  I've seen similar photos to the one in the link that have cars in them with "neon streaks" from city lights (or whatever).

peter: using private email correspondence goes against the whole point of this site. Please keep it in the thread.

mark: That effect is more or less what you would get if you left the exposure time on a camera really high while either you or the subject are moving. There isnt really a quick and dirty method in photoshop for recreating it so you're probably going to have to use a combination of motion blurs, saturation, multiple layers of the same image, etc.

I only mean't if mark wanted to send me the image file to look at.........other's do it so I saw no harm.

Just my 2 cents, but liquifiy might also help a bit.

The motion effect you would like to create
with the car is a very common thing many people
would like to do.

I would HIGHLY recommend getting the book:

    Photoshop 7 Down & Dirty Tricks
    By: Scott Kelby

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0735712379/qid=1049722853/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_2/104-8164767-8775135?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Is this book it tells you step by step how to do
what your looking to do and many other cool tips and
tricks.

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