Change Your Car Color
Let’s paint your car, without the cost and pain of dealing with your
local Maaco. I started with this photo of my Ferrari. Ok, so it’s not my
Ferrari.
I actually got it from
www.maximum-cars.com .
The first and hardest part is going to be creating a mask for all the
painted areas of the car. Now, don’t get mad, but I’m not going to tell
you a super-easy way to mask, or select the painted areas, simply
because there really isn’t one. I will
link you to a tutorial on masking though.
Here’s a mask of my selection:
What you’re going to want to do is start with all the colored areas you want changed selected. Then create a new Solid
Color Adjustment Layer and pick the color you want the car changed to.
This is also a good time to find and correct the areas you might have missed.
Now, we have a few different options for changing the color,
depending on what color you started with, and what color you want.
There’s basically three or four Layer Modes we’re going to experiment
with to see which one produces the best results for our color.
The first Layer Mode is we’ll try is Color Burn.
Mode: Color Burn
Not bad. Let’s try another one. Let’s try Overlay.
Mode:
Overlay
Kind of cool, but not the color I was looking for. Now, let’s try Vivid Light.
Mode: Vivid Light
Now that’s a little intense. Not what I was looking for either. For the last one, let’s try Colo.
Mode: Color
Well, that’s pretty, but still wrong.
It seems like, for this
project, the easiest change would be to use the Color Burn Mode.
Now, what if I want to make the car white? Let’s take the painter’s
approach. Change the color on your Adjustment Layer to Black, then set
the
color mode to Color. This will desaturate the image, almost like a painter uses primer.
Mode: Color
In this specific case, my car ends up looking pretty white. But,
yours might not look the same and I can make it whiter. So I’ll
duplicate the Adjustment Layer [Ctrl-J], set the color to white, and
change the Mode to Soft Light.
And now I own a beautiful, rare, white Ferrari… err… at least a picture of one.
source http://www.photoshoplab.com
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