The Chop Shop - Yo Color change experts...

I have yet to establish my leet skillz in color changing, so i ask for your help.

What are the chances you could make my car...
http://x7.putfile.com/9/26210340267.jpg

this color..
http://x11.putfile.com/11/30612114098.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v87/ntonar/DSC00599.jpg


If that pic of my car doesnt work for you, feel free to use any of them from my gallery. Or pm for a different one, i have a few more on my pc.

hook a brotha up, thanks in advance

bump for forty not knowing how to use photoshop :D

j/k forty, I'll do it for you a little later once work has settled down, provided someone else hasn't beaten me to it by then.

here's my two minute sloppy hack. I can clean it up and make it nice for ya if that's about the color you wanted.

http://www.hondacivicforum.com/upfiles/4809/EB20E666EB324343951282CEAF31C8C6.jpg

ORIGINAL: Auto98EX

here's my two minute sloppy hack. I can clean it up and make it nice for ya if that's about the color you wanted.

http://www.hondacivicforum.com/upfiles/4809/EB20E666EB324343951282CEAF31C8C6.jpg


dude that is SOOOO close. Any chance you could lighten it just a bit?


I appreciate it bro!

It seems like you want to do an Electron Blue color. Forty, I thought you knew how to do that?

Hey forty I can lighten it up if you want, but don't forget you gave me an indoor pic to work with and an outdoor pic to compare to, so I think that the color I posted is pretty close to what the audi would look like in the building your car is pictured in. It might be better if you have an outdoor pic of your car from a similar angle with similar lighting. I'll post up a few variations of the indoor and see what you think.

OK first is the same color as the original I posted (but I cleaned up the edges)

http://www.hondacivicforum.com/upfiles/4809/2ACE027A15264DA5945BA031DC87EB51.jpg

Second is the same hue, but more saturation and lightness

http://www.hondacivicforum.com/upfiles/4809/1056AD993611428D96CA8592518537AA.jpg

Am I getting close?

here's another one. It's a little richer blue, because if you notice in the lighter blue above, the light/dark color transition starts to look worse, i dunno if you can tell but around the front bumper and hood mostly. This one doesn't look as bad.


http://www.hondacivicforum.com/upfiles/4809/E5A097DFAC174E9CB5081422F49DF80D.jpg

Auto, you're really close, and thanks again for your efforts.

Heres a higher res, outdoor pic of my car if that will help. I'm going to keep experimenting as well to see if i can do it, but its not looking good so far..





Remmy, I can do this kinda stuff, but on a smaller scale. Like the fender flare i did for you before, that was way easier because i used a different technique that what Auto here is doing for me. I just recently learned the basics to changing a color and retaining the lines and whatnot.

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Oh yeah, Remmy, its Nogaro Blue, not Electron Blue. I think Electron is what comes on the Si's, and Nogaro is primarily an Audi color designed for the S4's release a few years ago. Thats what i was told anyways..

Forty I can send you the PSD file when I get to work later if you want.

ORIGINAL: Auto98EX

Forty I can send you the PSD file when I get to work later if you want.


I'm wondering what your method is too. Based on your first image I don't think it's the same as mine.

PSH! This **** aint so hard...



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you missed the inside of the driver's window ;)

ORIGINAL: mxs

I'm wondering what your method is too. Based on your first image I don't think it's the same as mine.


Well the first image was sloppy quickie job, I got the entire car, including the windows and non-red parts. The rest of the images are trimmed with marquee and lasso tools, then I make a new layer out of the red parts of the car (although you don't have to do that, I just do it so it's easier to go back if I screw up)

From there I just mess with the hue and saturation. I'm sure there are other and/or better ways of doing it, but I'm not trying to win any contests here :D

ORIGINAL: Auto98EX

you missed the inside of the driver's window ;)



you meticulous bastard!:D

here..i put the Forty04x4 in its natural setting,...:D

look! its offroading!! :D
local://upfiles/858/CBC3C1E6183349BA836C69A09E1EE5F6.jpg

auto, nice work!

ORIGINAL: Patrick

here..i put the Forty04x4 in its natural setting,...:D

local://upfiles/858/CBC3C1E6183349BA836C69A09E1EE5F6.jpg


oh yeah, you guys are SOOOOOOO Funny!:D

here..



local://upfiles/2331/79FFA48741E7476FA2C2C0B41228F0D3.jpg

ORIGINAL: Patrick

here..i put the Forty04x4 in its natural setting,...:D

look! its offroading!! :D
local://upfiles/858/CBC3C1E6183349BA836C69A09E1EE5F6.jpg


instant classic! :D

ORIGINAL: Patrick

Forty04x4


LOL good one patrick [sm=funnypostabove.gif]

http://www.imagesharing.com/files/26210340267blue copy4ydw.jpg
im still learning but i try...

mind you, i am not a professional, nor do i own any of these fancy programs..

"yo forty, we hooked you up, west coast of detroit style...carbon fiber hood, eyebrows, and mirrors...20 inch 5 stars, and a sick matte bue paint job, and shaved door handles...consider yourself pimped"

local://upfiles/858/95018EDFBF7148129BACC3A30E4474C4.jpg

but seriously, the rest of you do nice work.

YES! THats it, Patrick nailed it!


haha, Nice work Mugen, you got it pretty much right on.

Thanks for your help guys!

<snicker>

local://upfiles/1537/70B4217F23F5462A8C10A0D8045F68EC.jpg

^that'll never get old for you guys will it?:D




you just wait till spring, bastards

Wait till spring for what?... your bigass wheel gap?

local://upfiles/1537/BC5491329778431E96F6DE48B5B4D03D.jpg

ORIGINAL: remington870_20ga

Wait till spring for what?... your bigass wheel gap?

local://upfiles/1537/BC5491329778431E96F6DE48B5B4D03D.jpg



*sigh* ...god i hate you remmy..:D

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that was good. i honestly laughed through the whole wheel gap and offroading thing. sorry forty i cant help you with the color change. i didnt do so good in my graphic design class

he has some good examples here...and mine too! :)

haha, yeah I think i got what i was lookin' for....and then some:D