Recreating images

There are two parts to this, the technical part and the artistic part.

The technical part is relatively easy. Photoshop offers many methods of making some parts lighter and some parts darker, such as brushing on layers, using the Dodge and Burn tools, and creating adjustment layers with masks. You learn the techniques (there are many YouTube videos), and then you do them. For example, I would choose to make adjustment layers for lightening and darkening, and mask off the parts of the truck that need to be exposed to the lighten or darken adjustment layers.

The artistic part is harder. To make it look convincing, you need to have an understanding of the quality of light you want on the truck (hard, diffuse, etc.) and how the shading will be affected by the shape of the volume of the truck (e.g. how the light goes around curved panels) and its surfaces. For example, the way the light and shade are formed off the truck’s finish may be different than on the blade’s finish. Getting this right can require the study of how light and shadow work, as you would get from a painting or drawing class. Also, if you need to light up parts in shadow and there is no shadow detail, it might not look convincing.

A new way to do this is to use software that uses AI to “re-light” a photo. This is relatively new, and although Photoshop has some AI features right now, automatically re-shading a photo is currently only a proposed filter on the Wait List (see below). So unless you can find that feature in another application, you have to do it manually by combining Photoshop techniques with the kind of knowledge of light and shade that painters and photo/video lighting professionals have.

What if I would have an image of a truck and would like to have the same lightning and shades on the truck as I have on the blade. Where would I start?

If you want to get meaningful advice you should obviously post the image of the truck. 

Otherwise: Adjustment Layers and Layer Masks …