first ive cut the carbon texture and pasted in the other picture. then i lined everything up. turned down the opacity down a bit of the layer with the carbon in it. this makes you see the lines you need to draw. then i used the pen tool to draw and cut out the carbon bits that werent needed on the pic. the orange line was made by putting a stroke on the carbon layer, it follows the lines of what ive cut out. there's probably an easier and better way to draw an orange line like that, but this is how i did it.
http://www.carphototutorials.com/ Good website I stumbled upon a while back. They give sometimes obvious advice about automotive photography, but still worth the read. And of course a few "how to's" in photoshop.
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