How do I adjust transparency of color to change the color of the car? It is transparency right? You lay the new, transparent color over the old so the highlights are still there?
I'm not sure, but I'd also like to know the answer as I spend waaaay too much time messing with stuff in PS. -Taylor
Have that color in a new layer and select color (where it says "normal" )in the layers pallete and it will work great.
you can do it a couple of different ways, sometimes depending on the original car color you can cheange the layer style to overlay, but these doesn't work right everytime, you can also goto select>color range, and select the original color of the car and then goto image>adjust>Hue/saturation and play with that. if you go online you can search for tutorials that will teach you some more advanced stuff like adjustment layers. If you goto last weeks art show you will see some cool stuff i did in photoshop, but all of that i learned from online tutorials.
The best way to adjust that is to have the shape of the overlay in a seperate layer and have that layer selected. Then up on the upper right hand corner of the layers pallet you will see an "Opacity" box with a percent of opacity number in it. Just click it and a slide rule will pop up and you can adjust it to what percent you want.
These aren't so much photo-editing, mostly art techniques. If you look at my stuff in the last art show you'll see that I used the techniques almost exactly as they did. Phong The Web Machine 3D cafe There are a ton more to be found if do some looking, but these are what I use the most.
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