A Squarecan

Hey Every one,

I have been surfing the site for some time now and i decided i would join. I know somethings about photoshop and i am always playing with cars and trucks on photoshop(ex. lowered,chopped,shaved....) but i cant get a nice looking paint It always looks liek a flat primer. I usually paint a truck with creating a new layer overlay the color of choice and then use the blending tool.
I did this for a friend and i am not happy with it at all.



it just looks to dull any help will be great.

Thanks
Keith

kiwi

Welcome [righton]


Nice work


Contrast is what you are missing.Make a duplicate layer and hit auto contrast ,or you can try hard light,or just experiment with the blend modes,but contrast is what you are looking for


hth


Stu.

Lompoc42

Contrast and highlights like kiwi said. The lusture of the paint is what is alluding you. Follow Kiwi's advice and you'll find a good point! :}
KOP

A Squarecan

Hey guys thanks,

I went and played with it and came up with....


I have seen you guys talk about glass things, I have not looked about how to do it but can i use this effect in my paint? or does it not work liek that?

Thanks again
Keith

tranquil222

I think your man for shiny stuff is mark!

abbe

Hi and welcome to the fprum =)

Well i think we have bean thru this kind off stuff b4 w8 and i will search it up for you.


searching......... .... .. ....... ... aaaa there it is =)

http://www.photoshopgurus.info/forum...&highlight=car

maby that will help some =)

Rock on

wbiss

Welcome to the forum A Squarecan!

Looks like you have all the info that you need now to add even more 'shine' to your paint jobs!

[righton] Noticeable improvement already (using contrast) on your second post.

Enjoy the lessons and laughter to be had around here!

kiwi

I couldnt resist trying to see if I could improve the paint.Paint is a bit over staurated biut it looks a bit better,needs another pic as a reflection



Stu.

Bacardi

In my opinion, you'll always get stuck because of the limit of our 24bit colours. Even 48 (64 sounds more important but refers to CMYK) won't do the job.

When the sun is shining and I look at a white car, I'll still see a big diff between the highlight and tha normal sunshine bright white. HDRI in a 3D app might do the job...
Limited as we are, we should fake by making everything a tad darker so that our bright white (255,255,255) will appear to be lighter.
It's like drawing a white egg on a white sheet of paper.

The paint contains a lot of noise and the colours are filthy. That's one of the reasons why the image doesn't look shiny.
Take for example a brand new car. Doesn't it look shiny? What happens with that shine if you drive on a dusty road or on a highway every day... yes, the car loses it's shine. So in a way we have to do a car wash first

In my example I added the colours on separate layers using the screen blending mode. That was already an improvement. You might also consider to remove some noise.
The next step could be to use a curves adjustment to create a better contrast between the shadows and highlights. And the last step would be some little retouching to bring out some more highlights and/or reflections.