Dan man
02-27-2007, 10:24 PM
hey all, just by pure experimentation and deviation from another tutorial i found a cool way to make pearl paint, so i thought id share with you guys. this tut is written for ne guys, so if your more experienced please bear with me through all the details. at various parts in the tut your car will look rubbish, but keep going, because hopefully(i havnt tried this method on too many cars) youll end up with a good result
1.open up your base image. i chose this rx8. make sure your picture has lots of contrast on it and lots of lights and darks, other wise this tut might not work so well.
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/6969/tut1az4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
2. make a hue saturation adjustment layer. you can do this by clicking on the little black and white circle on the layers pallette and picking hue/saturation.
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/6892/tut2copyyf2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
3. step two desaturated the whole picture, which is not good, but this is the beuty of adjustment layers. select the pl tool or pen tool, which ever you are most comfortable with and select the body of th car, without the light windows and anything else that isnt painted, now, on your hue/sat adjustment layer in the layers pallette there will be a little white square. click on it. now with your car body still selected press crtl+shift+i. this will invert the selection, so that everything apart from the car apint is selected. now grab the bucket tool and male sure your foreground colour is black. click on the image. now only the paint is desaturated!
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/7785/tut3nt7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
4. now for the fun bit! pick the colour you want your base paint to be. for best results, but the brightness and saturation to full.make a new layer (we'll call it layer one) and fill it with that colour. you will now have a whole image of the colour of your choice, in my case a sky blue. thats not what we want, so firstly hide your colour layer, then click on your hue/sat adjustment layer. now on the menu at the top click "select">"load selection"
http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/5920/tut4oh7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
you will get a message dialog like this one. just leave all the options and it will work. now selct your colour layer again. click the mask button, a greyish box with a white circle in it. now your colour will only be on the cars paint area.
1.open up your base image. i chose this rx8. make sure your picture has lots of contrast on it and lots of lights and darks, other wise this tut might not work so well.
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/6969/tut1az4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
2. make a hue saturation adjustment layer. you can do this by clicking on the little black and white circle on the layers pallette and picking hue/saturation.
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/6892/tut2copyyf2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
3. step two desaturated the whole picture, which is not good, but this is the beuty of adjustment layers. select the pl tool or pen tool, which ever you are most comfortable with and select the body of th car, without the light windows and anything else that isnt painted, now, on your hue/sat adjustment layer in the layers pallette there will be a little white square. click on it. now with your car body still selected press crtl+shift+i. this will invert the selection, so that everything apart from the car apint is selected. now grab the bucket tool and male sure your foreground colour is black. click on the image. now only the paint is desaturated!
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/7785/tut3nt7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
4. now for the fun bit! pick the colour you want your base paint to be. for best results, but the brightness and saturation to full.make a new layer (we'll call it layer one) and fill it with that colour. you will now have a whole image of the colour of your choice, in my case a sky blue. thats not what we want, so firstly hide your colour layer, then click on your hue/sat adjustment layer. now on the menu at the top click "select">"load selection"
http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/5920/tut4oh7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
you will get a message dialog like this one. just leave all the options and it will work. now selct your colour layer again. click the mask button, a greyish box with a white circle in it. now your colour will only be on the cars paint area.