Photoshop?
90CRXZCSi
02-12-2002, 12:24 AM
Kinda a dumb question but i was wondering if anyone can give me some information about the photoshop and how to do it. Im not new to the board...i am just wondering how to do it because i just bought another CRX Si and it's red right now and i want to see what it would look like yellow with everything that i specifically have on it. Can anybody help me out please? :confused: I feel dumb.:o
kicker1_solo
02-24-2002, 02:41 AM
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crxlvr
02-26-2002, 10:08 AM
there are alot of Photoshop help sites on the net, if you look in that forum^^^ towards the beginning of the forum pages are help pages that teach photoshop well. Im not bad at it, so if u got a pic of the car, i can make it yellow for you.
kicker1_solo
02-28-2002, 01:04 AM
Here's some tips and how-tos on shopping, I had time to kill so I wrote them up. They should get you started. Explainations and where to find functions is at the bottom. You may have to know your wya around ps to get some of these. Other choppers in you have anything to add/correct feel free.
1)how to change the color of rims(to white, silver, gunmetal, ya know)
-- 1) Select rims, Brightness and Contrast, mess with the settings. Darker with a high contrast should give you gunmetal, you'll have to put a slight red/brown tint to the rims then use brightness & contrast if you want bronze. If the spaces in the rims are discolored now, turn them back to black with paint bucket or color in with airbrush. Smooth harsh edges with blur tool on your toolbar.
2)how to put different rims on a pic
-- 2) get nice pic of the rims at similar angle, make around same size, then paste them in pic to be modded. Use free transform -> distort to contour them to the car. More on free transform in 4
3)how to change the color of a vehicle
-- 3) Select the whole body, everything, and use either color balance or hue/sat. with Colorize Checked. Also can use the brightness and contrast tool. Then to bring back the windows and stuff, goto the origional copy select it, copy, and then paste it on your new colored image and position it right.
4)how to add body kits, stuff like that
-- 4) get something close to the same angle and view, select the kit, then paste it on the new image you want the kit on, then fit and contour with Free transform. Get to free trans by using the rec. marquee tool, and right clicking. Then once your there, right click again and use Distort. when your done, click the rec marquee button and hit apply. Use steps in 3 to colormatch.
5)shaving handles, molding bumpers, removing stickers, ect.
-- 5) For shaving, I use the rubber stamp tool. Hold alt and click on a space some where close to the part to be shaved, then directly striaght over from where you clicked with alt, use your mouse button and start using it to brush over the image from the edge over. When the image re-appears further over, let off, and do the steps above over again until its totally shaved over and blended well.
6)Tinting
-- 6) First create a new layer, now select the windows you want to tint. With the area selected, Use the airbrush and set the tip to its biggest setting. With black as your color, fill in the selection of the window, the big tip will fill it evenly and it won't go outside the selection. Now deselect and go to the layers window box, everything you just did should be in that new layer you made. Now adjust the opacity anywhere from 50-80. Depending how dark you want it. To get the rest of the windows repeat the process above, however, there is no need to make a new layer now, unless you want one window darker then the other.
7) Lowering
-- 7) Alright, theres a couple ways to do this, it really depends on the pic as to which method to use but I'll go over two ways. For the first one you will be moving the top part of the pic down until its as low as you'd like. To do this line up with the lowest part of the car, bottom of bumper or something, and go over to the furthest edge of the pic, using selection tool, start from the very edge and go over till you are at the bumper. Then start to trace from there to the other side of the car making sure that you trace up around the edges of the body colored fender around the wheel well area and edges of the body colored pieces, then take it all the way to the other far edge of the pic, then to the very top edge, all the way over to where you first started. Use the arrow, move tool, to drag the top section you selected striaght down till its at the height you want. then deselect. You may have lines on the background from where you moved it down. To blend these use the blur tool and also maybe the eraser. The second method is doing exactly what you did above but just selecting the lower half instead. So after you've done around the edges of the car and get to the far edge of the pic, goto the Bottom edge and all the way back to where you started. Then use the Rubber Stamp, set it to a large tip, and while holding Alt click alittle below the edge of the tire, further below it you go the lower the car looks. Then move directly up a little bit and with the mouse button start filling in the selection till everything has moved up some and looks good. Use Crop to get rid of the line it may leave at the Very bottom of the picture.
Theres a million ways to do these things, those are a few. Most options you'll find in Image -> adjust, or something like that. When I mentioned to use the blur tool, I mean the one on the tool panel, not the function in the filter drop-box. For all of my selecting (unless its a rectangle or circle) I use the polygonal lasso. And the more you zoom in on the image, the better and smoother the selection will be, but too much is hard to work with cause pixels get too big. I'm using photoshop 5 so some things may be different w/ newer versions. Just keep playing with it, you'll learn. Get better over time I garuntee. I have and I'm sure everyone else has too. And talking to others and asking questions helps too. good luck.
1)how to change the color of rims(to white, silver, gunmetal, ya know)
-- 1) Select rims, Brightness and Contrast, mess with the settings. Darker with a high contrast should give you gunmetal, you'll have to put a slight red/brown tint to the rims then use brightness & contrast if you want bronze. If the spaces in the rims are discolored now, turn them back to black with paint bucket or color in with airbrush. Smooth harsh edges with blur tool on your toolbar.
2)how to put different rims on a pic
-- 2) get nice pic of the rims at similar angle, make around same size, then paste them in pic to be modded. Use free transform -> distort to contour them to the car. More on free transform in 4
3)how to change the color of a vehicle
-- 3) Select the whole body, everything, and use either color balance or hue/sat. with Colorize Checked. Also can use the brightness and contrast tool. Then to bring back the windows and stuff, goto the origional copy select it, copy, and then paste it on your new colored image and position it right.
4)how to add body kits, stuff like that
-- 4) get something close to the same angle and view, select the kit, then paste it on the new image you want the kit on, then fit and contour with Free transform. Get to free trans by using the rec. marquee tool, and right clicking. Then once your there, right click again and use Distort. when your done, click the rec marquee button and hit apply. Use steps in 3 to colormatch.
5)shaving handles, molding bumpers, removing stickers, ect.
-- 5) For shaving, I use the rubber stamp tool. Hold alt and click on a space some where close to the part to be shaved, then directly striaght over from where you clicked with alt, use your mouse button and start using it to brush over the image from the edge over. When the image re-appears further over, let off, and do the steps above over again until its totally shaved over and blended well.
6)Tinting
-- 6) First create a new layer, now select the windows you want to tint. With the area selected, Use the airbrush and set the tip to its biggest setting. With black as your color, fill in the selection of the window, the big tip will fill it evenly and it won't go outside the selection. Now deselect and go to the layers window box, everything you just did should be in that new layer you made. Now adjust the opacity anywhere from 50-80. Depending how dark you want it. To get the rest of the windows repeat the process above, however, there is no need to make a new layer now, unless you want one window darker then the other.
7) Lowering
-- 7) Alright, theres a couple ways to do this, it really depends on the pic as to which method to use but I'll go over two ways. For the first one you will be moving the top part of the pic down until its as low as you'd like. To do this line up with the lowest part of the car, bottom of bumper or something, and go over to the furthest edge of the pic, using selection tool, start from the very edge and go over till you are at the bumper. Then start to trace from there to the other side of the car making sure that you trace up around the edges of the body colored fender around the wheel well area and edges of the body colored pieces, then take it all the way to the other far edge of the pic, then to the very top edge, all the way over to where you first started. Use the arrow, move tool, to drag the top section you selected striaght down till its at the height you want. then deselect. You may have lines on the background from where you moved it down. To blend these use the blur tool and also maybe the eraser. The second method is doing exactly what you did above but just selecting the lower half instead. So after you've done around the edges of the car and get to the far edge of the pic, goto the Bottom edge and all the way back to where you started. Then use the Rubber Stamp, set it to a large tip, and while holding Alt click alittle below the edge of the tire, further below it you go the lower the car looks. Then move directly up a little bit and with the mouse button start filling in the selection till everything has moved up some and looks good. Use Crop to get rid of the line it may leave at the Very bottom of the picture.
Theres a million ways to do these things, those are a few. Most options you'll find in Image -> adjust, or something like that. When I mentioned to use the blur tool, I mean the one on the tool panel, not the function in the filter drop-box. For all of my selecting (unless its a rectangle or circle) I use the polygonal lasso. And the more you zoom in on the image, the better and smoother the selection will be, but too much is hard to work with cause pixels get too big. I'm using photoshop 5 so some things may be different w/ newer versions. Just keep playing with it, you'll learn. Get better over time I garuntee. I have and I'm sure everyone else has too. And talking to others and asking questions helps too. good luck.
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