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What is the best program for home?
I want to see what color would look the best on my pro street 70 f100.
Is photoshop the way to go.
I have tryed cheapy programs, and they make it look like i took a marker to the paper.
No gloss and hard to keep trim and things.
(microsoft paint).
Been looking at new vehicle colors, but hard to picture it on my truck.

Thanks for any help.
Dave

problem.
right now the truck is dismatled and i dont have any pics of it in the pro street stage.
been looking for a pro street f100 to use for a template.

DennyW, I recall you lightened up a picture for me over a year ago. I am attaching today's work which is the first progress on my car in over a year, noting I have sent it to the Deuce Den also for a discussion of windshield installation. I guess my batteries in the camera are low but I took four pictures and they all came out dark. I brought it up under PAINT but could not figure out how to "lighten" it. I still have the white '29 roadster picture that you made into maroon for me so that shows what you could do for the F100 problem here. Anyway here is my new windshield.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

You might want to try downloading Gimp, it'e free and about as powerful as Photoshop. The problem with both is that they take a while to learn and become proficient at.

At least with Gimp if you get discouraged you don't have a ton of money invested in it.

http://www.gimp.org/

Cheers, Mark

here is a couple shots of one. i am going with a cowl hood also,
the color i am thinking about is a dodge color. it is inferno red crystal pearl.
this is the best pic i could find of it.
On dodges main page with the caravan.
http://www.dodge.com/en/
thanks dave.
the maroon on the 29 roadster is similar to the color i want also.

looks cool. wish i could do that. i got the gimp program mentioned. I just cant seem to find the method for complete color change while keeping the original shadows and contrast.
Thanks Dave

like in the door and fender
the original had a lighter area and the new one has the exact same area lightened in red.
i will try more tonight.
i kept trying the pic section by color and air brushing. got patchy.
do they make a pad that you can use a simulated pencil on instead of trying to use mouse control?
Dave

Thanks Denny, How did you do it? Photoshop? Is there any way to do that with PAINT?

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

got another question sorry.
on this pic of a friends truck i did for him. if i change the color, is there a program i can use to keep the gloss in the paint like it is. or will I always loose the gloss when computer changing colors.
I have been doing some and now i can keep the body lines unlike before,but i loose the realistic paint look and it looks obviously computer done.
Which isnt a problem, but trying to get a good idea on the color before i spend the big bucks on paint. House of color had a program i thought. but it doesnt have my vehicle in it.
Havent been able to find the program that i tried last year on there site.

Thanks,
Dave

if you have a spare 800.00 laying around photo shop a good program but if not tell me what color your thinking of and I'll see what I can do

here a Idea what photo shop will do

John which way did you do it? I know a couple of different ways but am always curious the method that somebody uses.

Denny, what I did on photoshop for a shadow I needed on some artwork for a tattoo was copy the image (just the image I needed to shadow) I desaturated it, colored it grey, then positioned it in relation to the image where I thought it looked right, then I blurred the edges. Voila! don't know how well it would work on a car, you'd probably have to make the car a layer so you could set the shadow between the vehicle and the background.

Red

I don't want to step on any toes or hight jack a thread,but I too need some help with the paint job on my wagon, I email a pic. to a nepthew in mississippi when I needed the back ground taken off, but could not paint it, I use this pic on my business cards and looks a little tacky with a bad paint can someone give it a nice,shiney paint job, would like it the same blue if possible and thank you ....

don't know how close I came but I just play with the color balance and the select color till I get the color I'm looking for not very good I'm only working with cs 2 just order cs3 can't wait for it to get here

well renu36's I tried to match the color but hereit is cleaned up the other I just couldn't help my self had to put more chrome