What do you call the guy that changes the colours of cars in the pictures?

mick.fr wrote: »

You can use Gimp for Windows, it is not that complicated, is powerful and it is free.

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

Gimp, I thought you meant Limerick man for a second.

Limerick man wrote: »

Edit: I'd do a tutorial, but mods would probably delete it as it's not motor related lol!:D

Go on, amuse us and do your tutorial

The trick is to select just the body work and use the colour tone tools, not actually "paint" the colour with a brush tool.

Howdy all. First things first, i am using Adobe Photoshop Pro 7.0 do do all this.

Handy Short cuts:
ctrl-alt-z = Undo
ctrl-shift-z = redo all undo's
ctrl-shift-u = desaturate
ctrl-+ = zoom in (minus =zoom out)

Right so, starting off. Get a picture of a car. Make sure it's a fair big size (anything over 1024*800 should be enough. This is so that when you zoom in, it won't distort the picture.) I've chosen a 5 series, in grey.

Firstly click the pen tool.


Then, start off on a point on the car. (Generally one of the wheel arches is a handy place to start). Now start clicking. You want to select the outline of the car, keep as close to the lines as possible. Don't select anything you don't want to colour. Just select the outline of the car, we will worry about cutting out bits later, windows etc.)


I've highligthed the bit i'm selecting in orange. If possible (to make life easier for yourself later), where you can, don't select bits. For example, on the front light, i am clicking in around the back of it.


LIkewise for the back window.


Once you have selected the outline of the car, right click on the image, and go to make selection.

Thanks - I'll wreak havoc on Carzone

Post a before and after of the pic of my C5 from Sunday..........

Now, once you are finished selecting, hold ctrl+C (to copy), and then ctrl+V (to paste) what you have just done. Don't worry that all your selection has just disappeared, it's normal. Now, with the Move Tool, click and drag the part of the car you have selected like so


This is just to check you have selected the bits you want. Pressing ctrl+alt+z (undo) will bring the car back. down to it's origional position. If you have missing any bits, undo again until your selection comes back up.

Now, to desaturate. (This basically takes out most of the colour, although it's not very obvious on grey). ctrl+shift+U desaturates the car like so:


Now, go Image - Adjustments -Variations


This is where the fun begins. Choose your colour by adding more blue, red etc. etc. and darken it and lighten it on the left hand side.


Press ok and your done. (If you are not happy with the colour, undo, and then go to Variations again and play away with the colours)


Happy days.

If you used a crap quaility pic from the start, it might come out bad in the end. Black is also a hard colour to change, and to colour something black is ahrd.

bazz26 wrote: »

Slow night?

LOL - I'm waiting for my car to be resprayed :pac:

Tutorial done here....
http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=59026626&posted=1#post59026626

crosstownk wrote: »

Fair play, LM. It actually looks like the result of something from a website configurator.

Now what about my C5 ???

I'm going out with Arthur Guinness and a few friends now:p:pac:

Thanks for the guide, LM, but I think one thread about this is plenty

Merged...

Limerick man wrote: »

You asked for it:P

You can thank the newbie in the pub who i had to try and explain to how to pour a pint of Guiness. Fill it up to the top first time was here plan.. She can keep it:rolleyes:

Pimped out :pac::D:pac::D:pac: