Car Renderings

[FlipItDesign]

Hey guys, im looking to see if any one can give me some tips on make renderings like on the link below. Ive been using photoshop Cs3 to start making them but i want to start making more color changes and such which ive been having a hard time with color replacement tool . So any help would be appreciated.

Concept Truck Drawings by Graphic Artists - Art & Graphic Designs at Truckin? Magazine

[ipshwitz]

there is a lot more to 'recoloring' an image other than the color replacement tool. photoshop litereally gives you a horde of other options.

personally, i'd suggest staying out of the color replacement tool altogether. create new layers based off of selections and tweek the layer styles and image adjustments.

using gradients will greatly enhance this also.

[sacredgeometry]

forgive my confusion but arent those all rendered in illustrator

[mecotterill]

Yeah, I've never used the colour replacement tool, it's a total nightmare to use and there's loads of better ways to do it.

The way I alter colours in Photoshop CS2 is to place a Hue/Saturation/Luminance filter above the layer I want to change. This filter can be found behind the little half black/white symbol right down at the bottom of the layers palette. The filter will affect all the layers below it, but if you want it to just affect the layer below only you can press the 'control' key and a little arrow will come up to show you it's locked to that layer.

So I assume you are you hand drawing these pictures FlipIt? Then you're scanning them into photoshop? I've never been able to draw anything on paper, never mind in Photoshop, so if you can do that then you're already lightyears ahead of me!

[.:FMD]

When i used to play around with recoloring cars, I would select the body of the car with the pen tool, then I would use the desaturate to desaturate. Then after that I would take a brush tool change it to color and paint on the color. As for adding designs and such. I would take the car into illustrator and do that.

If you look closely on some of the car renderings you can see the original image (look at the head lights). I used to also do cell shadings like this.

[FlipItDesign]

Well i was looking to like a mix of hand drawing and photos, but the way im starting to look around, its easier to draw it and start from fresh and photo shop in some real parts if need be.

[mecotterill]

Photoshop is very good at combining things like drawings and photos and altering things which have been scanned in, so yes if you can draw then you'd be better to do that part by hand.

Hey why not post up some of the work you're doing so we can all see it?

[ANIM8R]

Hey Flipit !

I have found that one of the easiest way to colorize any photo ( whether car or person or even an old photo ) is to create a new layer above the object you are trying to colorize and paint on the color you want it to be ( normally a tad darker color ) then try different layer options ( top left corner of the layers Palette ) .. Multiply seems to work well most of the time. But play with them. The lighter the base image the better ... dark colors ( blacks, browns, reds etc ) are harder to "cover up" .You might want to hit the darker areas with the Dodge Tool first ( not to be confused with the Ford Tool )