Ok I was playing around with photoshop, and couldnt for the life of me work out how to effectively colour code or change the main colour of a car. Can someone give some tips on how its done pls? Also how to cut n shut different wheels, spoilers etc? Layers are involved I guess, TIA

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I usually have four layers:

- background
- body
- front wheel
- back wheel

etc.

Leave the normal image on the BG layer, and copy it to the body layer. Now on the body layer use your tools to delete everything in the image except the parts of the car body.

With the wheels copy the full image again to each layer, then delete everything except the wheel.

Make sure the order of layers is:

- body
- front wheel
- back wheel
- background

This way the body sits over the wheels. Now you can alter the colour of the body layer, change the size of the wheels etc.

DW :)

aha I knew it layers, cheers :) Is there an easy way to colour code the body though? Ive tried paint fills, sponge etc colour replacer but just cant get it to give a nice even colour change?

To cut and paste,basically

1.use the lasoo and edit-cut,ie wheels
2.then edit-paste ,onto your car
3.then to size it use edit-free transform

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul123/paul123/bmw.jpg

bttt anymore tips n knowledge pls?

Off topic, but if you've ever been to Singapore, you will have seen cars driving around with wheels like the ones above!!

What's even better is that the "face" is mounted on bearings, so it stays still when the car is driving!

To change the colour of the car, you need to select it (I use the polygon lasso or magnetic lasso tools), feather the selection edge by a pixel or two, then use Image>Adjust>Hue/Saturation. You can then drag the hue about to your heart's content, and adjusting the saturation often works well too. Leave the lightness alone.

When you've got the right colour, you can then OK this box and use Image>Adjust>Brightness/Contrast to get it looking as natural as possible. It's not always possible!

If the original car is black, white or grey, then you'll need to give it some colour to begin with - select the car and use Image>Adjust>Colour Balance to make the car very roughly the colour you want. Then, use hue/saturation as above to get it right.

Andy.