hey guys, im asking for your help for something that ive been having difficulty with for some time now - i cannot seem to change a color to another exact color that im looking for. ive tried everything from saturation to replace color to whatever. ive searched around here and the web and still cant seem to get a straight answer.

heres a good example, im trying to change the color of the wheels on my friends ferrari to the gold color thats on this bmw m3.

heres my friends ferrari 360 cs

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/8747/jcfcar17ry.jpg

heres the bmw m3 with gold bbs lm's. that color gold is what i want to turn the ferraris wheels into

http://img418.imageshack.us/img418/4962/dscn14264me.jpg


heres my attempt, cant seem to get the right color. im sure its something simple/stupid that im doing and any help is greatly appreciated.

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/7522/jcfcar29ae.jpg

Excuse my quick selection. At any rate the car you wanted to gold plate, I selected the wheels (crudely) and copied them to a new layer. The source car I opened too and selected some gold on one of the wheels. I then used image match color with the source being the selection and the target the copied layer on the source car file. dscn14.. That turned the target car's wheels to gold but it was a little dark. To jazz up the layer I used a layer style. Inner Bevel notice the gloss contour on the screen dump.

Yeah they became gold all right. But this may help you some.

I didn't make a good selection, so the wheel looks ugly, for color matching, there are 3 things to care about, HSL, you need to increase the luminoisity of the hubcab, then play with hue and saturation to match the color, in this case, I use levels to increase the light, then selective color and another HSL layer for fine tune, I guess curve also works in this case.


Realaqu

Colourmatch seemed to blow this one out, so I took a sample of the colour of the wheels of the bmw and then on a new layer in colour mode applied the colour (mind you this is a quick roughie before brekky). Then using a grey dodge and burn layer I dodged the wheels before using hue/saturation/brightness and adjusted the saturation, lightness and introduced a little pink.

Here's what I whipped up, quick and dirty. I made a selection of the wheel cover and pasted it onto the other vehicle. It's not done up properly, but it's an idea.

Maureen

[img=http://img282.imageshack.us/img282/1425/goldwheelcover5bl.th.jpg] (http://img282.imageshack.us/my.php?image=goldwheelcover5bl.jpg)

Hi bKLyNbENz. Welcome to RetouchPro.

I have made a start on this.
If I don’t get caught I should have this done soon.

Can I have the stereo? :)

Ken

Hi bKLyNbENz. Welcome to RetouchPro.

I have made a start on this.
If I don’t get caught I should have this done soon.

Can I have the stereo? :)

Ken

That's bloody brilliant, Ken, pardon the swearing... :dizzy:

Maureen :vampire:

Of course, you have a flat light that you are trying to incorporate into a specular light situation. You might have some success playing LAB. Sample the color of the test model. I get something like 58/3/26 LAB readings. Convert your desired image to LAB. Create a curves adjustment layer and move your L, A and B to the above numbers. Merge down so you have your base layer and your adjusted layer. Click on your adjusted layer to open up the Blend If and adjust till you get something pleasing.

Cheers

Dave

Used a couple of gradient maps with colors sampled from the source image.

If your friend can afford a Ferrari, he/she should be able to afford some gold wheels to go with it.

But seeing as he/she's a cheapskate, I tried the following.

New layer set to colour blend.
Sample colour from BMW
Paint in wheels (Did a really rough job, expect you can take the time to do it properly)
Ctrl+Click on colour layer to select wheels.
Move to background layer, and make levels adj to lighten wheels. (use Ctrl+H to hide selection dashes to make seeing wheels easier).

thanks for the tips, i got it

http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/6538/jcgoldwhat8ht.jpg

I saw some plugins from Alienskin's Eye Candy (I think it was Eye Candy) that had metallics. Maybe that would help??? I dunno cause I don't have it. I just remember seeing it and thinking that it looked pretty good. I know you got it but it may tweak it up a bit. I think there was a trial on the site. If I see it again I'll let you know.

Oh dear. I got ‘em bolted on but it looks like I was followed. (Was that you Maureen?) :)

I extracted the car with GrowCut.

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?p=102400#post102400

It’s Far better than Extract.

Ken

Oh dear. I got ‘em bolted on but it looks like I was followed. (Was that you Maureen?) :)
Ken

It was, darlin, it was. Wasn't it myself hot on your heels to have a look at that fancy cut/extract work!

Maureen :dizzy: