Help with "Car busting through paper" image?

[Boots]

I am a newbie with photoshop and am just self-taught so I need a little help. I am trying to make an image that has a car busting through a sheet of paper. Here is the image of the car I have been using:


I have attempted to do this by myself and am wondering if there is a better way to get this effect? Here is the image that I have created. I just used the pen tool to make the shape of the "ripped paper" and then just played with the blending options to get the shading. Please let me know what you think I could do to make this better?

 

[Steve]

Hi Boots, I think it's a really good start.
I come to PS as photographer so what you're doing isn't something I've tried.
Steve

 

[iDad]

I think puppet warp may do this but time consuming

I did something like this a year or so ago without puppet warp, wonder if I still have psd

 

[jm05pv]

i would think it would look better without the mountains showing.

 

[Gaussian]

I agree, it would look better without the background in the car pic. It also needs some shadows on the car where it is behind the paper.

 

[iCooper]

. . . It also needs some shadows on the car where it is behind the paper.

i agree with Gaussian on that and i think if you brought the tear down to the edges of the car and took its background out as previously suggested and i would put some shadows under the parts of the paper that are folded back to give it more depth

 

[DesignMyBox]

° Add some Motion Blur to the car to make it look like it just drove through the paper.
° Give some jagged edges to the torn paper to make it look more realistic.

 

[iDad]

this is what I would do
couldn't sleep

 

[sprucemagoo1]

Have you tried getting an image of something actually bursting through paper, then merging the two images together?
Maybe this will give you the results you are after.

 

[iCooper]

and spruce magoo comes up with an idea so ingenius none of the rest of us could think of it lol. good idea spruce.

 

[sprucemagoo1]

Do i win anything? lol

 

[iCooper]

not quite, but seriously that was a good idea lol

 

[Scott20015]

The car itself looks good (yeah, get rid of the mts!) but the paper rip lacks any kind of detail (wrinkling, folds, shadows) and that is what throws the whole picture out of wack.