Put Any Car on the Showroom Floor

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Next we are going to apply a gaussian blur filter to the white oval layer:

With these settings:

My result:

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That finalizes our glows we need to produce the showroom effect and now I am going to put a shadow under the car so it looks more realistic.

For this I will use the pen tool:

Start a new layer and use the pen tool to make a selection around the lower portion of the car kind of how we did with our white oval. The reason I am not just using the elliptical marquee tool is because an oval shadow would not be realistic. We need a shadow under the car except for under the wheels since wheels are on the surface.

So with your pen tool make a selection around the car similar to this:

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After you connect all your dots, right click on your selection with the pen tool and pick Make Selection:

After that fill your selection with the color black.

Then apply a gaussian blur to this layer as well with a radius of 5.2 Pixels.

If your result doesn’t look perfect just grab your eraser tool with a pretty large soft brush to erase parts of the shadow until you get your desired effect.

My result:

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Just keep trying that until you get what you are looking for, it may take a few tries. But as you can tell it can have a pretty cool result.

The last touch we need is a reflection of the car, which is actually easier than you think.

Right click on your car layer (I am using a windows pc) and pick duplicate layer.

Put the layer you just made underneath your main car layer and drag it below your other car. Next you need to rotate the car around 180 degrees by either using the photoshop shortcut ctrl+t and holding down shift or by going to edit>>transform>>rotate 180 degrees.

Now go to edit>>transform>>flip horizontal. You should have this so far: