How would I achieve this effect...?

**rolda hayes** · 05:31 PM

Hi there,

would anyone be able to tell me how to achieve the effect seen on this image?

Ive seen this done loads of times on car websites where the image almost looks like a cartoon or drawing rather than a normal photo...

Cheers

**moondog** · 04-20-2007, 06:32 AM

Remove background and add shadow, slightly soften and that's all

**rolda hayes** · 04-20-2007, 08:57 AM

oh OK,

I know that its clipped and there is a shadow but couldn't
get the "drawing effect"

**alokrsx** · 04-20-2007, 11:12 AM

I only see the drop shadow effect on this image.
Do you have any bigger resolution pic of this?

**rolda hayes** · 04:03 PM

its the same with every car website ive seen

i suppose its more to do with the white shading on the windows thats making it look less like a photo...

**angele803** · 04-22-2007, 05:08 PM

I think these type of pictures are taken with very good lighting. Probably in a studio made for photographing these kinds of things.
Aside from the lighting thing, it also looks like they softened the image somehow. I am not sure exactly what technique they used to soften it, but you can google something like "soften photos in photoshop". Maybe someone else can share how you soften photos??

**rolda hayes** · 04-23-2007, 07:22 AM

thanks for the advise, Ill have a play around with the images.

**wogazm** · 04-23-2007, 08:00 AM

looks like a black solid background that has been blurred a lot.

**Mohab** · 04-26-2007, 05:29 AM

The sofening effect could be guassian blurr

Filters>blurr>Gaussian Blurr

**NeoWeapon** · 04-27-2007, 03:07 PM

if u do use gausian blurr, you must duplicate the orig layer then do it and put it on a blending mode, and perhaps using layer mask and keeping only correct spots u want soften out.