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

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 :) )

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

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!

http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/1...11004at926.png

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)

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/661...11004at928.png

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:
http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/9...1004at932j.png



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.

http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/8...11004at934.png

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!
http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/6...11004at937.png



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.

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/3...11004at940.png


+++ REP

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

Awesome!

A+ Work!!
 

k20z3,
I'm an amateur Photoshopper. I've been fiddling with Photoshop since the late 90's. I thouroughly enjoyed your write ups and absolutely think you have an eye for it! Obviously being a photographer helps big time, and it shows! A++ work here guys, listen to him as he absolutely knows what he's talking about!

~Repped~ GOOD POST!!!
:happydance:

Wow, thank you for the encouraging write up.

A+
 

Anytime, it's always nice seeing people who do good work, share with others~! It's what it's all about!

Thank you man I certainly appreciate it. Figure I'd help all of you guys out so you guys can buy me a 370z ;) hehe...i wish!

Hey, if I can't afford CS5, would you say photoshop elements would work? If not, what is a good alternative to CS5?

PS3, or PS4 (which I'm using)

pm me your email skeeter, i'll hook you up :tup:

I don't condone PS download -- that's just me but be careful you two!!

lol, you knew where that was going. it's worked for a couple years for me. :happydance: i would be happy to buy photoshop if it wasn't so ridiculously priced

How true, I had an old copy of CS2 on my last desktop but that bit the dust a few years ago.

One thing i noticed, 500gb is no longer enough for me. After the crap load of pictures from the petit le mans all i keep hearing from the computer is that my hard drive is full, currently trying to copy 5k+ pictures over to my little portable drive. Then delete a few programs and see what i end up with.

I just know people from Adobe, and they crack down just be smart and dont do anything stupid hehe ;)

ANY OTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR TUT?

yea i've got two 1 TB hard drives plus a 128gb SSD main drive. one TB drive is for media, the other is for pictures with the 128 being for windows, games and productivity software. as cheap as hard drives are these days, you pretty much don't have any excuses. i'm hoping to nab a nice 2TB to upgrade my picture storage drive since i've had it for a while, i'd hate for it to die on me (though i do have a backup for that drive, a 1.5TB external, it's just slow as hell)

had a friend show me how to do good simulated lighting effects like lens flares and light blooms but i can't really remember all the steps. wanna tackle that tut? i don't want to use them all the time but it can help in the right circumstances i think

No excuses, my current desktop has 3 hard drives in it at the moment. One for just the operating system, another for games and programs, and the third is for storing music, movies, and pictures. Unfortunately it is in storage atm so i gotta deal with what i have.

Here's a good one that I think a lot of people on this forum might enjoy!.. Taking a pic of your own car, and adding aftermarket mods to it, to see what it might look like. I.E. Body kit, different spoiler, wheels, etc...

Definitely let me know what you guys want name a list ;)

I second this motion. :D

I was also thinking a tutorial on selective color would be cool. I used to know how to do it but have forgotten. I would give you more rep but it won't let me until I give somebody else rep.

How about this one? What can you do with this one?

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...Z/IMG_0207.jpg

i used to use the pen tool to cut out the parts i wanted to leave colored, select it as a path, then select the inverse (everything else) and desaturate. that worked. much easier way is to use the black and white tool (so you can adjust the color levels) then just use the history brush on the parts you want to bring back to color. just remember to do any sharpening after that step since the history brush will take it back to how it was when you open the image, not just back one step in the history

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I'm thinking a nice start may be putting after market wheels on, secondly maybe window tint, applying vinyl decals to the car, and after market body work /kits

Definitely I'll try to do that we have to remember when changing car parts images must be close to same position

Wow I really need to update. Maybe I'll do it tonight!

any suggestions on taking sharp shots at a dark place with out the noise if you know what I mean? and if there's really bright area in the photo and the main object is in the dark, how do I bring out the main object without making the bright area too bright?

Definitely, my suggestion is one of two things.
Getting in camera.
1.) a flash exposing for the main object. Start f 125 at f5.6- at 100iso

Send me pic then I can show

I will also be adding photos how to light my new car.

I've found a good flash works wonders in low light situations, unfortunately mine was busted while in Afghanistan. But, with my new D700 I can crank up the ISO and still get nice shots. It was a major upgrade over my D70S. A fast lens can also help a lot in those low light situations. After typing all this, i just realized i misread the whole post; oh well, I'm still posting this drivle.

D700 Superior at low light ;)

I'm not even a photographer or have a camera, but this is one hell of a write up! Repped http://serve.mysmiley.net/cool/cool0020.gif

Thank you!

Good stuff, Clint. :tup: