help

i need help editing this photo, and i know that u guys r like wizards at photoshop, i tried doing it myself but im a noob :( i wanna change the paint job to a green 00ff00 instead of the black paint job to match my website. then im gonna put it in my banner. i would like to know how u did it if ur gonna help me out. THANX :)

http://bluewolf69.tripod.com/car.jpg

Geocities sucks. Won't load your image (or your website), so if you could upload that pic to the AF server, that'd be awesome.

damn, i didnt even notice that. ill upload it to my geocities account then. and what do you mean? my website works fine. anyway, i tried to do a shadowing effect for the corrado and it wouldnt work out, very annoying. i wanna make a lighter end of the car behind the little shadow. look at the pic to see what im talkin about. first car is the one i wanted edited.



http://www.geocities.com/mystdotcom/corradocartoonbig.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/mystdotcom/pic.jpg

can you post the exact color you want since you're talking specifically?

Yeah, 00FF00 is REALLY bright green... Is that what you're after?

Is this what you need? Let me know:

http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/587132greencorrado.jpg

http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/450498greencorradobanner.jpg

yea, i want like a bright nice green. thats a nice job with the green but the problem is that its green in the wrong places. i want the white to stay white but the black to be green. cuz the white is the shine, so i want it to look like a green paint job. how did u not color in the tires and stuff? did u select the tires and windows or w/e and just make it so it doesnt paint in that area? i would like to know how you did this, like the shadow effect. i tried moving the picture on top of another picture but theres a white outline that doesnt go away, i dont know how to make it transparent so i cant put the car ontop of another car without that sqaure white outline of the picture. i hope you can understand what im talking about. thanx :) maybe we can talk on aim

i learned how to use photoshop alot better now but i still cant seem the change the black paint job to a green one. its so much easier on real cars..... can anyone do it?

how do you do the shadows that is hot, I think we need a tutorial up in here.

Shadows were easy.

Copied a pic of the car (just the car, not the whole image), pasted to several layers (however many shadows you want). Aligned them all in a row. Used "edit/adjust/desaturate" on all layers except the first one. Then under "layer options" set the opacity to various levels. In the banner above, I think I set the opacity at 50%, 35%, and 25%, getting lighter and lighter.

That's it.

now can you animate the shadows? to maike it look like the car is driving across the screen?

Originally posted by Rob80
now can you animate the shadows? to maike it look like the car is driving across the screen?

I have a Flash Banner on my website that does that :)

Yeah, flash whoops ass!!! I made a badass flash site, but for some reason the most recent version won't work! It really pissed me off, and I gave up trying to get it to work a few months ago. Never had a problem before... :(

Anyways, I'll work on the pic again to see if I can adjust the green some more, but I don't think it'll look good... There has to be some contrast in the picture, but I'll try.