Mod for black cars...
06-06-2005, 10:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Burnt Toast
im at work right now, so i cant make a write up 
im sneaky using the comp. any way... when i get home ill show you all how to do this.. its not that hard.
also if your trying this you cant do it to a black, white, gray, or sliver car. they are not accual colors on the color spectrum
im sneaky using the comp. any way... when i get home ill show you all how to do this.. its not that hard. also if your trying this you cant do it to a black, white, gray, or sliver car. they are not accual colors on the color spectrum
06-06-2005, 10:35 PM
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Originally Posted by tyro
Why does your rear window defroster/antenna look so "visible"?
In that 1st photo you can see it a mile away.
In that 1st photo you can see it a mile away.
anyway for those who wish to try this here are the steps.
1) open your image
2) Duplicate layer & make your original layer invisable
3) on duplicate layer erase every thing but the car. this can be done a number of ways so pick the one your comfortable with. make sure you erase the windshild, visable windows, wheels, headlamps, grill, corner markers, ect.
4) go to Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation
5) in the Hue/Saturation box you will have several options in the pull down. your first one is master. when master is selected, when you slide the Hue bar you will see the color change, you will be able to change to several colors and sevral shades of those colors but you may not beable to get the exact color you are looking for. but eh.. its a start right? Dont use saturation or lightness on the master, it will either make your image grainy, dark/light, or both.
6) after you have played with the Master you can tweak individual colors. basicly if you dont get the desired color from master you would go in to each color and tweak. For example say your car is mars red (like mine) and you want to make it that cirtron green color i made in my previous post. well you can do this 2 ways, since red is an option in the pull down menu you can go to red, slide the hue to make the car green, then go to magenta (a form of red) and slide that over so make your highlights match. then click ok. now you may not have that color green you want. so now you will go back to hue/saturation and go to Green (since you just made the car green in the last action) here you will tweak the green, make adjustments to hue, Saturation(bightness or dullness of color) and lightness (overall dark or light). Or you can do the same steps but use the master to change the color to green first. however using master will tweak all the colors at once which sometimes can give an unwanted halo effect from another color on the darker edges of the pic.
7) after you have the color you want make the fist layer visable, clean up the layer you made changes to (any bleeding of color from saturation). and save.
if you have any questions feel free to PM me. or ask here. ill do my best to answer.
***on a side note: some one said use the replace color tool, that will not give you good results on a metalic/shinny object the replace color will ony replace one solid color, not shades of color, so you will have to pick every shade of the color in reflections. thats a pain in the ***
***After that play around and have fun
Drop it like its hot!
o yea and a black one and gray:
06-06-2005, 11:04 PM
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Originally Posted by amdeutsch
You really need to do something about those sidemarkers. 
j/p
j/p
^^ real pic of my car
crappy snapshot but eh gets the job done.
06-07-2005, 12:10 AM
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Heh i was playing around real fast and somehow i managed to select everything with the replace color tool, and i obtained the same results as you. Though i failed a bunch of times earlier 
. Nice write up
. Nice write up
06-07-2005, 01:55 AM
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2004 C230k (SOLD), 2005 C230k (Lease ended), 2004 Carrera 4 Cab, 2007 530i
Originally Posted by LorinserCClass
There is one floating around but its like a negrofied one...
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06-07-2005, 02:03 AM
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this is turning just like one of those fantasy Nude-Celebrities web sites !
you know they're fake, but you gotta look !! :v
you know they're fake, but you gotta look !! :v
06-07-2005, 04:03 AM
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haha, i had a lot of fun with this. burnt toast - great writeup! here's my honda before mods - and riced out 
(i hate it when people mess up perfectly good hondas like my second pic - although i haven't seen one quite this bad 
) #1 pic - riced out version, #2 - my real car
(i hate it when people mess up perfectly good hondas like my second pic - although i haven't seen one quite this bad ) #1 pic - riced out version, #2 - my real car
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06-07-2005, 03:34 PM
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The True OG Modded out W203
Originally Posted by oggle
The path tool is used to draw out the shape of whatever you are trying to select.
LMAO! LOL do you still have the one w/the banana popping out? Man I miss the OLD mbklasse
06-07-2005, 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by oggle
AWESOME! I miss the chrome now
Hey btw thanks for freezing my laptop w/that post you had on the C32 forum-the one that you wrote the same word 100X! Asssoooo!
06-07-2005, 05:51 PM
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Originally Posted by LorinserCClass
LMAO! LOL do you still have the one w/the banana popping out? Man I miss the OLD mbklasse
Doooood pick up ur damn cell you chalupa~! I think BoFA thinks I'm planning a bank heist or some **** now :P
