Tutorial : Change the Color of a car

[Agent_K]

Hi my name is michael and I am new to the boards.

I was reading this thread and thought i would give some photoshopping a go

here are some of my results

first is a R31 GTS-X candy apple green

and the 2nd pic is of a RZ supra in candy green

[Agent_K]

Hmm... this photoshopping is addictive ..

so here are some more of the cars ive done.

[DarKZer0]

hahah this is a funny post...

i was just playing around with photochopping last nite without even knowing this thread was in action.

here is some stuff...

tho somehow i think my stock gun metal grey looks better then the ones above...

[Bax]

I'm using an ancient Windows Picture it program, (95) and it is easy as to change the colours.

[R33_KRAZY]

hey,

i am totally hopeless at this thing....i have a blak skyline an want it kermit green....how do i go about this...an i have adobe photoshop 7.0....

[TracidTrax]

im new to this, how the hell do i fill the layer with a new colour?

[Blue_J]

The simplest way to change a car's colour i found (being a photoshop dummy)

Go to; Image>Adjustment>Replace Color

*Put the dropper tool (which is now active) on one of the car panels and click the mouse

*Slide the Hue bar around to change colour

*Slide Fuzziness bar around for finer tuning for shading etc.

[Trust33]

Does any1 use the paint program ''gimp2''. i am having some difficulties in changing the colour of cars.I can lower,add bodykits but i cant seem to do this with this program.

Also with the whole layer thing for the paint programs,how does it go.Am i supposed to have the first layer as the origional and then for every modifycation that i make.change into a new/different layer. :confused:

What does the chain icon mean in the layers tablet.

[SAM112]

ugh.. I have photoshop 7.0, where can i find the colour blend tool?!?

[Madaz]

once i saw this couldnt help but have a go myself

these were done in paintshop pro 9

[Drift88king]

thanks for the tut

[Nizmo]

I don't think this has been mentioned but for the novice, novices who want to test out a few different colours to see what their car, rims, engine bay etc looks best in:

PShop CS5

Select the area that you want to 'colour'

go to 'image' and then 'adjustments'

go to hue/saturation

tick the colorize box

Play with Hue then Saturation to get to desired colours

Not the best technique for digital art purposes, but it does quickly answer all those 'what would my car look like if the rims were gold' type questions

Extra tip: when you apply the colour to the selection - feather 3px - 5px so you don't get those sharp edges.