SMI
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Aug 22, 2005, 8:34 PM
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Car color changing tutorial (pearlesceant)
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The following tutorial will be on changing a car's color from bland to pearlesceant, and in virtually any colors you choose.
First, find an image of a car you like, and try to find it in the color yellow, as this is the best color to work with, and this color will be used in this tutorial. If you do not want to find a car, this one will be provided for the pruposes of this tutorial.
Now that you have your car, select it with the magic wand tool, which is found on the left toolbar. Now using the magic wand tool, select the vehicles yellow body only, and make sure you get every pixel.
Once the body is selected, copy it by pressing ctrl+C and paste with ctrl+V. Go to "Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation" on your new layer, and change the color of the car by checking colorize, and moving the hue bar back and fourth until you find the color you prefer.
Now, to make the car pearlesceant you will need to duplicate the layer, by right clicking on the copied body layer, and click duplicate layer. Once this is done, go to "Image>Adjustments>Levels" and move both of the arrows on the ends together, so they join right as one of the black spikes starts to rise on the graph. You will notice that in the background your body is now changing, so parts of it become darker and others stay generally the same color. It will look quite awkward now, but I can asure you it will turn out in the end.
One this is done, hold down the ctrl, and click once on the layer with your body on it, and now there should be selection lines around your body, that will still look awkward. Go to "Filter>Blur>Gausian Blur" and set it to about 6.0 to 7.0 depending on how drasticly you want your pearl look to stand out (6.0 being more drastic than 7.0) Make sure you stay in these numbers on this picture provied or it will turn out looking awkward.
Now that it is blurred nicely, you will want to look in the layers toolbar (in the lower right corner of photoshop) uner the layers tab there should be something that sayes "normal" at this point, change that to screen, or just play with the possible selections and one of them should make your car look very, very nice.
Now your probably thinking, "It looks pretty, except for these lagged edges around my car now. To fix this, you will want to first merge the body layers 1&2 by pressing ctrl+e when you have the top layer selected (should be the pearl look) and you will see that they merge together, and it still looks the same. Now go to "Filter>Blur>Gausian Blur" and do a 0.3 to 0.5 blur on your body layer, and it should take away those rough edges slightly, but try not to make it look fake-blurry in the process...
All you have to do from this point is press ctrl+e one more time, to merge your top layer with the background and you will come out with a fine product. Do this more often and you will be able to make paint jobs like mine, after about 5-10 tries.
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