Well I'm no photoshop noob but I'm trying to repaint this Yaris black but it always turns out looking flat and non-realistic. Can sombody make it BSP for me using the full 3000x1996 resolution?
http://www.topspeed.com/cars/toyota/...liftback07.jpg
Thanks in advance!

P.S. If you got some time I think it'd also be cool to make that into a night shot with a black yaris and the headlights on a bit brighter.

 

Just for fun I took this:
http://www.topspeed.com/cars/toyota/...iftback06w.jpg
And made it into this:

If anybody want's me to make one for you post up your pic.

 

Difficult one, but maybe this works.



Too bad I'm an engineer instead of a graphics type.

Tomas

 

That's almost perfect but could you make it slightly darker? The front is perfect.

 

Much darker and I'll loose the highlighting. I tried it darker, earlier, but backed off because it lost that 'pearl' glow.

Us, if you looked at it more than, uh, 2 minutes ago, I made a couple of minor corrections in the one on-line, so you might want to D/L it again...

(Sorry, not a graphics type, just an old engineer, but it looked like something I might be able to tease into shape. That's about my limits - especially using just Photoshop Elements. Full Photoshop might have a better chance.)

Tomas

 

Bah, it looks too green, but at least I gave you smoked headlights (on accident!).

 

How are you guys doing it? Maybe I''ll give it a shot. Tomas yours is a close to perfect I got so far, thanks a lot! That's what I'll use for now.

 

Here's my attempt at a night shot. The door handle is all messed up because the lens flare put blue and yellow blobs on it that were hard to get rid of but I tried.

 

I'm using the Color Range tool, then I adjust the contrast/brightness and finally the shadows/highlights.

 

I outlined the area I wanted to change (Magic Lasso Tool plus hand corrections to catch those areas where it didn't follow well) then Levels to reduce the brightness of the midrange in that selected area without changing max or min brightness.

Then desaturated enough to get rid of the overly blue sky reflection on the paint.

At that point I hand corrected some of the mis-match between body panels using the Burn tool set to midrange and about 5%.

Then, still using the same selected area, but in another layer set to overlay, I filled the selected area with black and adjusted the percentage opacity until it looked about right.

That takes care of the big chunks, a few small hand touch-ups with various tools in small areas and voila!

The only place where I maybe should have gone darker is the first adjustment with Adjust Lighting Levels. I possibly could have darkened the midrange a bit more at that step to reduce the 'pearl' effect. I didn't want to loose the pearl entirely and end up with a flat looking black, but I probably could have made the mids deeper there to make it look more black, without making the image look too phony. Hard for me to tell, though, on a 12 inch laptop (iBook) screen. :D (Yeah, I should have moved to my graphics machine, but I'm lazy, and that's not right here next to my recliner.)

The only hard part is the selecting. If that were easier, I'd do it over.

Tomas the Lazy
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