Photoshop Question - Changing colors

Smiley · 03-19-2007, 12:53 PM

How do these folks change the color and keep all the color variations, reflections, and shaded areas?

Original photo-

Changed to green paint-

Changed to woodland camo paint-

Capt. Insane · 03-19-2007, 02:52 PM

Well, with the red to green it could just be a matter of changing the color balance. As for the camo...a different jeep maybe? I'm not sure but that's kinda cool, though it's harder to see. They could keep both versions side by side and somehow clone the reflections from one to the next. Whatever they do, it's done well; the third one actually looks like it's painted those colors.

Heater · 03-19-2007, 02:59 PM

they may have used a blending mode, probably "multiply" (if i remember correctly) to do the camo.

dudio · 03-19-2007, 03:47 PM

I believe at the very least that their monitor's are on.

.. after that, I haven't a clue ..

Smiley · 03-19-2007, 04:23 PM

I can't see how color balance would work, unless they cutout the body from the rest of the photo, change the balance on just that section, and then paste it back over the jeep. The camo has all the reflections, just harder to see.

Heater, camo aside, how did they change RedRock Red to Rescue Green?

Capt. Insane · 03-19-2007, 04:32 PM

You can use the pen tool to highlight the area around the truck body and then go to paths, make the selection, 0 feathering. That will highlight it like the marquee tool would and if you then do color balance, it will only do it within the highlighted area

{OF}Malicious Assault · 03-19-2007, 05:21 PM

There is a way to use transparent layers to do that, but I'm not real sure how it works. They did a great job on the color changes. Marketing software is probably what did it

I think I know what SMiley is looking at for his next Jeep

Smiley · 03-19-2007, 05:34 PM

Thanks Capt, I'll try that method

And MA, I want yellow, which is supposed to be a 2008 color choice. So I wanted to chop some pics of 4-doors into yellow

Heater · 03-19-2007, 05:55 PM

Just out of curiosity and the fact that I never used the replace color tool I wanted to see if i can do it. So I quickly selected the area, chose the +color picker tool, selected all the colors i wanted to replace and picked the replacement color. This seemed to work ok and it took less than 10 minutes, but i don't think this is how they did it looking at the orig.

dudio · 03-19-2007, 06:10 PM

Yellow is the sportiest colour ever!

Heater: RKt was looking at that exact same purple jeep last nite !
Nice work on selecting the area, and the reflection seems to work.