Photoshop request please

[dynevahn]

Hey guys time to paint my car, thinking about painting it black with a yellow stripe (dont flame lol) Can someone photoshop it black with a solid yellow stripe going from the front bumper up the hood? Im talking a strip that goes in between the lines on the hood. Thanks!

[Deschodt]

I don't mean to be harsh here, apologies in advance, but Photoshop is not magic... Changing colors on a car and looking realistic is HARD work! May I suggest you buy photoshop elements for $50, read a couple of tutorials, and give it a shot yourself ? Better start with a picture of a black car and do that stripe, that will look better and be easier than changing your whole car to black ! Also, you want to give people some ammo to work with, that little 400 pixel shot is largely unusable (too small) to do anything decent ;-)

I'd probably copy this into another layer, desaturate, edit that to look black, then paste it over your car except for a stripe area.. Lotsa work ;-)

[k9handler]

Have the car covered in vinyl, that way if you don't like it you can simply go back by peeling it off.

[1911Guy]

[Photoshop is not magic... Changing colors on a car and looking realistic is HARD work]

Great point! It drives me nuts everytime I see this request.
It is not as easy as most think.

[edesign45]

[Photoshop is not magic... Changing colors on a car and looking realistic is HARD work]

I second, I mean third that!

[ben@benlovejoy.]

Black and white are actually the two hardest colour-changes to do.

The stripe is beyond my meagre Photoshop skills, but here's a very quick-and-dirty conversion to black:



Ben

[summers3d]

Photoshop IS magic. It just takes years to learn how to do magic, or at least good magic. That being said, I think there are many people on this board who jump at the chance to show off their photoshop skills. What's wrong with a request? They are always answered and usually people do a decent job.
-David

[edesign45]

Nothing wrong with the request at all. I like helping people, photoshop'ers just need a little more ammo to work with...like a black car photographed in a similar position, that's it.

[ruf-porsche]

Just do a google image search for black porsche
It's not rocket science.

Oh it's not your Porsche, just pretend

[Driver8]

Is this what you are looking for?

[ben@benlovejoy.]

Would you mind sharing the steps taken to do this, and roughly how long it took?

[930Jim]

I say, don't do it. Nice p-shop btw.