Photoshop - Painting my wheels

[johnsilva]

Hi there, I was wondering if anyone would be so kind as to "paint" my wheels on my bike for me on photoshop, im useless with it! (photoshop that is, not the bike!)

I was thinking maybe the same colour as the "HONDA" on the bellypan, or maybe a dark silver colour

Thanks!



John
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Current Bikes: ZX7R P5; KR1S C2; GPX250R F3
Previously: CBR400RR-R; YQ50 Aerox

[akaDAVE]

That's a mean looking bike! Is it an original paint job? I wouldn't change it.
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[johnsilva]

bog standard paint job mate, all i want to change, is the colour of the wheels, i dont like black wheels at all!



john
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Current Bikes: ZX7R P5; KR1S C2; GPX250R F3
Previously: CBR400RR-R; YQ50 Aerox

[mrtEE]

hope this is ok- it was a bit rushed tho

[minesweeper]

i realy couldnt tell it had been done in paint mate i swear

matt

[Rookie]

You're lucky I have tonsilitous.

I actually took an eyedrop from the 'H' in Honda, but it looks a bit maroony for my liking. However it took too long to do, so I'm not going back over it.

Oh and if anyone wants to know how I did it, for future reference, I used magnetic lasso to select the bits I wanted, and then eyedropped the right colour, and then used a paintbrush on 46% opacity.

[lilredmachine]

Another way of doing it is to select the wheel using the polygonal selection, desaturate it, increase the brightness of it, lower the contrast slightly, colour pick what colour you want and go into variations, colour the beast then do the next one.
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[Rookie]

That's a better colour.

[lilredmachine]

Same colour, just a different method.
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[pjones_po]

[Rookie]

Here's grey.

51% opacity, some random shade of grey I used from the palette.

[lilredmachine]

This is an NSX I have been working on. It has had a Corvette C6-R bodykit spliced into it, a carbon texture bonnet added and honda concept wheels put on, also has a double spoiler. Now it is time to paint it from the original blue. (see pic 1)

I will use the same method as I used to colour the wheels on that bike.

Select the outline of the car using the polygonal selection tool. Be careful to go round the wheel arches, do not select the wheels themselves, otherwise you will end up with odd coloured wheels. After you have done this, select the same tool, hold ALT down and then deselect the bits you do not want to colour IE the carbon bonnet, lights, windows, mesh grille etc. Then press CTRL C and CTRL V, this will copy and paste the bodyshell onto a new layer, so that we can desaturate it using CTRL+SHIFT U, getting rid of the colour (see pic 2)


Then go to Image-Adjustments-Variations and build the colour from the selections there (or use a colour picker on the image if you see it) then click ok. This should colour the car the colour you selected. As you are on a different layer, any selection mistakes can be rectified using the eraser without damaging the layer below. Then press CTRL E to merge the layers back together again and huzzah, you have a colour change (see pic 3) This is how I did the wheels on the bike, and it can be done on pretty much anything.

(I am aware of the blue on the grill, it was something I forgot to do at the start of the colour change )

By the way, you can have your thread back now
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[John C]

I was about to say that that looked like a crap photoshop, but then I looked at the crappy orignal and I can see you didn't have much to work with.

[Rookie]

As it says, the shell, wheels and detail aren't original to the image, so it's to be expected.

[John C]

Sorry, I was scan reading in a very small IE window (at work with boss over shoulder )
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Not aimed at lilredmachine, but as a general comment...

A common mistake when using layers is combining objects with backgrounds that are of the same focus. This does not represent what you would get with a camera. If you take a perfectly in focus car, and a perfectly in focus background, the eye will pick up that something is wrong. It also removes depth from the image.

[lilredmachine]

This is the original picture.

As you can see, it has the same sort of issue. How would you recommend rectifiying this Sparkie? or is it to do with the picture in general?
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[John C]

I'll have a crack when I get home as I only have jasc paint shop pro at work and I can't get on with it.

It's needs a good bit of work, and experimentation. I can't say just off hand exactly how i would do it, because I don't know yet. As anybody who uses photoshop will tell you, there are a million and one ways of doing the same thing.

[johnsilva]

thanks you guys!

you are stars!



John
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Current Bikes: ZX7R P5; KR1S C2; GPX250R F3
Previously: CBR400RR-R; YQ50 Aerox

[Hotdog]

The wheels looked much better black.

No excuse for any other colour unless you buy white marchesinis.

Sad.
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[lilredmachine]

I just blurred the background a tad, what do you think?
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[Rookie]

It looks better. However, I think the resolution of the wheels is a major issue, along with the size.

[fireboymatt]

there ya go, wots with all the nsx pictures as well :/

[John C]

[johnsilva]

[John C]

I've just got back in and had a quick go, but I'm tired, and don't have the time or inclination to do it any better.