Color Choice

[MicksZ]

Cheers Gav - Sorry to miss the cruise the other weekend, i was in no state to drive that day after my brothers 21st.....

[Gav240z]

No worries Mick are you going to the southbank concours on the 28th of November? I believe quite a few guys will be there from VicZcar and the NDSOC one of the guys was saying we should head off and go on a cruise later into the mountains sounds like fun.

[hls30.com]

Ok I have pretty well narrowed it down to Patriot Blue, Any of you Photoshop Gurus have any instructions on doing a color change through photoshop so I can preview?

Something (or a utility) like that would be a great addition to the club archives!

Will

[glavash]

Mine is painted PPG Intense Blue - I am actually getting it repainted right now the same color.

Had a slight problem with inserting an image, so I'll just put the link here.

You can go to my gallery here and see a couple of different angles.Gallery Link

[260DET]

That Intense Blue is a good mid shade that shows up the Z's great lines through different angles.

[HKSZ]

I agree with Richard that mid strength colours best show off a zeds curvaious lines.

Whats catching my eye lately is that electric forest green on the BA Falcons

(not that lime green :nervous: )

[Zpeed]

yer my friend wants me to go that eleltric green, but i've decided on Vixen red from new BA falcons.. was going for brillant red from BMW, but doesn't have good in darkness red in it, the ford red is nice in all light

[Zrush]

What's a BA Falcon?

Vicky

[drunkenmaster]

Thats a Ford BA Falcon, BA being the model code.

It was released with large hype after the previous models failure, and as such, has been released in a wild range of colours which can be seen here:

http://www.ford.com.au/showroom/passenger/Passenger_Vehicles.asp

if interested.

[pressedsteel]

Heres the quick easy process I've used in Photoshop to play with color:

1st, say your Z is blue, select all of the blue areas (I use the magic wand tool which selects areas of color similar to the color where you click....you can keep adding more areas by repeated clicking while holding down the shift key until you have your entire cars painted surfaces selected). You can play with the "tolarance" setting to determine much color deviation is selected with each click. Your precision here is limited only by your patience. In the attached example, I spent about 1 minute selecting my color area....I'm not very patient :nervous: ! This explains why my attached example is not real exact around some of the edges.

2nd, go to the "image menu", select "adjust" and then "variations". From this dialog box, its pretty self explainatory. Just click on the displayed choices. It does require repeated clicks in any one color direction to attain a major color change.

While you have your selected area set up, you can also play with the other adjustments under the "image" "adjust" menu to change things like brightness and contrast. In any case you can do something like what I have attached here in about 15 minutes. Probably more if its your first time or you are a perfectionist!

[hls30.com]

You are a good egg!

Now if we can post that to the archive-or to a seporate thread!

Will

[pressedsteel]

I'll have to leave that part to someone else :stupid: