Someone recently asked me how to change the colour of a car in a paint package, like Paintshop Pro or Photoshop. There are several different ways to do this, I will detail two ways. I am a PSP user so the instructions will be biased towards that product, although the processes will be the same in other products the tools may have slightly different names.
Here is the car I am going to demonstrate on:
1. The selection method.
This process simply involves the use of the freehand selection tool, which in PSP has an icon that looks like a lassoo. Set to "point to point" in the tool-options applet just left-click around the body of the car until you come back to the same point and right-click. The more points you make the better detailed the shape will be.
You only want to change the colour of the car's paintwork, so now you have to alter the selection so the chrome, lights, glass and any other part that doesn't change colour with the paint avoids getting recoloured too. To do this you have to hold the control key [ctrl] down at the same time as the first left-click of the area to be "de-selected", then just draw around the shapes as before.
Now we can recolour the car! Luckily this car hasn't been painted yet it's just in unfinished bascoat
, but in order for the colour to look good we will need to darken and reduce the contrast of the texture. For this we use "Colors, Adjust, Brightness/Contrast" and put -50 for the brightness and -25 for the contrast, these are just some numbers I came up with that ended up working in this instance.
For the colour I decided to use Tealite, so I chose a pixel from a pic of a Tealite w211 using the colour-pipette, somewhere in the middle of the body where it's neither light or dark, and made a note of the details; hue: 150, saturation: 85. You can use any colour you like but I wanted to make it factory-style! Open "Colors, Colorize" and enter the details.
If you right-click somewhere on the picture the selection will vanish and you have the finished car. Looks good doesn't it?
Here is the car I am going to demonstrate on:
1. The selection method.
This process simply involves the use of the freehand selection tool, which in PSP has an icon that looks like a lassoo. Set to "point to point" in the tool-options applet just left-click around the body of the car until you come back to the same point and right-click. The more points you make the better detailed the shape will be.
You only want to change the colour of the car's paintwork, so now you have to alter the selection so the chrome, lights, glass and any other part that doesn't change colour with the paint avoids getting recoloured too. To do this you have to hold the control key [ctrl] down at the same time as the first left-click of the area to be "de-selected", then just draw around the shapes as before.
Now we can recolour the car! Luckily this car hasn't been painted yet it's just in unfinished bascoat
, but in order for the colour to look good we will need to darken and reduce the contrast of the texture. For this we use "Colors, Adjust, Brightness/Contrast" and put -50 for the brightness and -25 for the contrast, these are just some numbers I came up with that ended up working in this instance.
For the colour I decided to use Tealite, so I chose a pixel from a pic of a Tealite w211 using the colour-pipette, somewhere in the middle of the body where it's neither light or dark, and made a note of the details; hue: 150, saturation: 85. You can use any colour you like but I wanted to make it factory-style! Open "Colors, Colorize" and enter the details.
If you right-click somewhere on the picture the selection will vanish and you have the finished car. Looks good doesn't it?
Ive always wanted to know how to do these things.Ive only just managed to work out how to lower the car using PSP so this is brilliant for me,Cheers :bannana: :bannana: :bannana:
