JMDigital said:
dugums - Damn! I have seen the last few photoshops you have done for people and I have to say you do great work!! A++ For you photoshop grade! I would like to know your process for changing the color of a car.. I have not mastered that yet.
I don't really spend much time on the color changes I do for people here. It's just a matter of taking the lasso and separating the areas you want changed from the areas that are to be left alone. Just use the -add and -subtract area lassos to get the fine details.
I actually use the polygonal lasso - so you will see most of the wheel well areas have sharp corners on them. I just use this tool because I can get my area selected in the quickest time possible. If you want to do a really good job you can be more careful and use better tools.
From there, just use the hue/saturation tools along with the brightness/contrast tools (and anything else you can find). The donor picture is really important - especially as to whether or not the car is metallic - and primered cars really suck to do. It's all experimentation.
I usually only spend 5 minutes or so on a color change, because I just get bored after that amount of time. There was a guy on my Volvo site who asked for a really good color change to be done, and I actually ended up using a paintbrush for about 2 hours and had an almost perfect result.
You must have only seen good results to be praising me like that - look around and you'll see plenty of my failures out there...lol