Photoshop can make miracles nowadays when it comes to photo retouching but it’s really useful in other areas as well if you know exactly how to use it. If you’ve ever thought of modifying your car, changing its color, wheels, adding certain visual elements to it or just wanted to make a cool wallpaper with your baby and you wanted to get an idea on how it will look, you can do all that with a bit of virtual tuning in Photoshop.

It might sound tricky if you’re a rookie in this field but if you follow the right tutorials you might be able to do exactly what you want to your car. So, here is a list with 15 great virtual tuning tutorials that will help you modify and refine your car exactly how you want it using Photoshop.

How to change your car’s color

A simple tutorial which will help you change the color of your car on the fly by applying different color blending options. (click here)

How to make car advertisment mock-ups

We’ve all wondered how our car would look like with the right decals. This is an easy tutorial to create advertisment mock-ups for your car. (click here)

How to create an amazing car illustration

Learn how to create a breathtaking car illustration or wallpaper using different types of brushes and effects. (click here)

How to chrome your car

You probably won’t do that in real life with your car but thanks to Photoshop you can give your car a neat chrome effect. (click here)

Creating a steampunk golden car

After giving your car that lovely chrome look, you could also go for a more luxurious, retro and classy steampunk look with this tutorial. (click here)

Create a custom vanity license plate

This Photoshop tutorial will help you create your own custom vanity license plate using just a couple of tools, a piece of reference material and some creative layer styling. (click here)

Super slick lighting effects for your car

This tutorial will help you combine different photos and brush strokes to create wonderful lighting effects for your car. (click here)

Turn your car into real life “Cars”

I’m pretty sure we’ve all seen the movie “Cars” and with this step-by-step tutorial you can turn your car into an adorable vehicle like the ones from “Cars”. (click here)

Repaint your car with a wooden texture

Have you ever wondered how your car would look like with a wooden vinyl wrap? This simple texture can be easily applied on your car following your car’s contour. (click here)

Porsche digital rendering tutorial

Create a high quality digital rendering from a low quality photo with a car. (click here)

How to create a smoky car crash

No one really wants to create the scene of a car crash but this tutorial will help you create a remarkable smoke effect that might be used for other photo ideas. (click here)

Changing the wheels from your car

Most of us have already thought of getting a new set of wheels for our car and this tutorial will help you visualize how your car would look like with the wheels you think of. (click here)

Rapid development sketching

If you already have some skills in Photoshop and you know how your car will look like, this tutorial will help you create a beautiful sketch of it, especially if you work over a photo of a clay or screen shot of an alias model. (click here)

Add flaming decals to your car

Adding flaming decals to your car is not really a hard job in real life or in Photoshop either. This tutorial will help you add flaming decals to your ride easily. (click here)

Create a truck coming from a flame

Actually instead of the truck you can end up creating an image with your car coming out of an impressive flame, just like the scenes you’ve seen in action movies. (click here)

If you want to check out some impressive virtual tuning designs, you can go to CS Virtual Tuning.