Clint's helpful Photoshop Hints...

k20z3

This are the areas to add more, to get rid of "DMAX" or absolute black:



vs yours:

After:
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But great overall job !

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Skeeterbop

here is another from yesterday:

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k20z3

Great!

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k20z3

anything else anything wants?

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Skeeterbop

I would love to see a tutorial on how people change the color of the car. Mainly because i would lie to get an idea of how a couple ideas would look on my car.

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k20z3

with your car it's going to be hard but get me a red z photo!

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k20z3

bump someone with a red z please post!

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Skeeterbop

kdo2milger's photo album: Nissan 370Z Forum - kdo2milger's Album: My Solid Red 370z

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Skeeterbop

i figured a neutral color would be easier, but maybe Gun metallic is a little dark?

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k20z3

Because the PG/ (Grays) are what cameras are calibrated too, and also that they blend in (earthly tones) it's hard to do it, unless you isolated your subject on to a white backdrop or extreme chroma color, but non the less ill show you!

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Skeeterbop

Ok, I get it now. the whole Grey/White card thing. I didn't even think about that.

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wilsonp

Same reason they use green (or blue) screens - high contrast between background and subject to make it easier for the computer to separate the two (and sometimes the person too )

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2014 Cayman S PDK Sport Chrono White/Black
Was 2009 370Z Touring Sport+Nav 7AT Metallic Black/Persimmon
Was 1991 NSX Auto Black/Black

k20z3

I will be updating later tonight or tomorrow, thanks for the red car.

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k20z3

CHANGING COLOR

So this is a really easy process to do, but works BEST on CHROMA colors (bright reds, blues, yellows, greens' because the color of a car if it's PG or white, there is white and those colors all around so in order to do that you NEED TO isolate your colors pull it places where there is no other color like that.

If you have the colors mentioned above your lucky. This users' car was posted above so I'm using it for this demonstration.

STEP ONE 1: Duplicate layer (CMD + J) (CTRL+J) on chose the duplicated layer, and add a layer mask! Make sure that the "Car" thumbnail, not your layer mask or "White" thumbnail is selected otherwise nothing will happen!



Step 2: With the Polygonal Lasso tool you are going to make a crappy selection isolating the color you want to change! You can be more presice to make the job in the end easier but for demonstration I didn't, so when you connect the end of the lasso tool, you'll get marching ants like so: (You can see the tool selected in the tool box)



Step 3: (THE FUN!) With the marching ants you want to go up to Image > Adjustments > Replace color and you'll get this dialog box:




Step 4: With this you will see three eye drop tools select the one with the +, begin clicking the image where the red is, because this is where we want to replace the red. You will notice the black box turns white show casing where the red is represented. You want to get it so only the color is showing white in the dialog box, like represented.



Step 5: Change the HUE to your preferred color, and adjust the saturation depending on how bright or dull you want it! I like green! Press okay when done!




Step 6: You will notice some of the headlight and tailight turned green, so on the "White" thumbnail, next to the green car (Top layer), you want to paint with a BLACK brush 80% flow over those until they are gone and TA-DA This it to show you before & after.




+++ REP

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Skeeterbop

Wow, that is much easier than i thought. Thanks!

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