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[Tomf]

I have been given a copy of photoshop 7.0 and i was just woundering how you change the colour of a mini. Any help would be great.

Thanks

[Waynetbun]

There's loads of different ways off doing it depends on the pic your starting with rearly. Try 'hue & saturation' or 'replace colour'. Or add a seperate layer of a colour over the orginal mess around with the transparence and styles in the layer panel. Lots of different ways, but everyone will give you a different anwser, just a bit of trial and error and the best possible picture to start of with.

Not sure if thats the sort of explanation your after, but hope it helps.

[Mini 360]

Well the way i do it is select the body of the car then go to...Image...Adjustments...Colour Balance. Then all I do is play around with the colours until i find the right one then with the car still selected go to...Image...Adjustments...Brightness and Contrast and change it to make it lighter or darker. And thats it really!

[Bean]

I do it the way mini360 does it - then i play about with the curves, so that it doesn't look flourescent

[Tomf]

Thanks every one i have a quick go, i messed the roof up but here is what i have managed to do.

Before


After

[Bean]

Hey - nice work!


Love the colour!

[Mini 360]

I do it the way mini360 does it - then i play about with the curves, so that it doesn't look flourescent

Whats that curves all about and where are they?

[Bean]

I haven't got photoshop open atm... but I'm pretty sure it's Image>Adjustments...

It does basically the same as brightness/contrast really just with a line that you play about with

[Mandgands]

i use 2 methods for changing colours.

1- Image -> Adjustments -> Replace Colour. This, i think, is the easiest way to do it. Just play about with the colour sliders until you get the desired colour.

2- Make a new layer and fill it with colour. Lower the transparency and then cut out all the bits you dont need. This is far more time consuming, but if done right the results are a lot better than "Replace Colour".

Its all personal preferance really. There are probably 100 different ways to do it, but you just need to mess around till you find the method you find easiest.

On a different note, has anyone tried CS3 Beta? I am using 7 at the minute and was wondering if its worth upgrading.

Gary

[binge]

For help on car mods. This place is the Bible for photoshop.
http://www.digimods....s/tutorials.htm


A good tip when changing colour of cars is to make it slightly darker than you actually want it to be, Then make the layer ever so slightly transparent so the origional light and reflections show through the new layer. Makes it look more realistic and not so flat.


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