i got a trial of ps cs3 last night and i think i came a long way enjoy
im open to criticism (constructive)
took all day today
did this one first

 

2nd looks pretty decent, though not a color i would want on my car..tint looks funny.first one...the back rim looks crooked, or in a turned positions or smthg..dunno what u did...look by the tail light..looks weird..also not a color i would want, and it's not realistically applied..it just doesn't look like paint....good job on your first photoshop experience though...

 

thanks i was trying to jack rims off of a photo and just got ____ed off and was like f it
i dont even know what happened with the tail

 

ya the perspective on the rims on the first one is off a bit.

 

What method did you use to change the color?

 

definately wasn't the regular ctrl+u.

 

I'm thinking maybe magic wand + hue/saturation.

 

hmm.. colors are a little washed out and blinding

 

not too bad for a 1st timer

just remember with wheels, always try to find matching angles, and to cut them out, use either the magnetic lasso toolor the elliptical marquee tool

 

or wheels i used elliptical
for color i used a combo of cutting an outline of the car isolating it from the other layers-paintbucket a couple times with different colors and changed layer to soft color.
i burned myself over working it and trying to make it look better than the first one that i jst burned myself out n got lazy

 

sorry on the second one with just the green n white
i polygon lasso'd and ctrl u thats y the top n bottom colors dont match

 

wtf with the spokes on the wheels??
btw 2nd one looks cool.. unique

 

lol i couldnt fix the wheels lol
and thanks for the compliment too
i really like the second one even though i spent the least time on it.

 

soft color? or soft light?

the blending mode should be to color. the colors and the general level of the image is too much and off because of that... very unrealistic.

play with the program some more.. you'll find out what works better.

 

k yeh soft light
thx for he tip!

 

nice

 

thx

 

yellow is cool

 

whats wrong with the wheels? 4 wheel steering is awesome!

 

The way I do it is I make an outline of the car with the Pen tool. Then I go and remove areas with the deselect feature of the pen tool that I dont want to change color, headlights, etc. CTRL + Click on the outline and create a new layer and then fill it with a color. Make the outline invisible. Then to make the color look nice I use the Color blend mode. And you can actually get some really nice realistic looking colors that way. Ill probably post a few examples of what my stuff looks like later on.