Paint my wheels.

[e30s52]

Like the title states. I have been toying with the idea of painting the centers black, nogaro silver, gun metal, etc. So show me what you got.

Thanks alex

[mpalmer325]

how big are those wheels?

[e30s52]

17x8

[87e30]

Well this is the least I could do for ya. Working on it now.

[e30s52]

Well this is the least I could do for ya. Working on it now.

Awsome! cant wait to see.

[M-technik-3]

No leave them bright, just my opinion.

[e30s52]

No leave them bright, just my opinion.

The lips will be, I just want to see what it would look like sence I will be getting them redone soon.

[87e30]

[daniel]

i like white with polished lips

[87e30]

Sorry, it was hard to get the super bright wheel down to a believable black level. The darker silver looks pretty good. I tried my hand at gold but failed, and the colors are just for fun. I know you won't like them.

[speedminded]

Ughh, I've photochopped Style 5's so many times. It's so miserable deselecting all the triangles!! lol!

[speedminded]

Sorry, it was hard to get the super bright wheel down to a believable black level. The darker silver looks pretty good. I tried my hand at gold but failed, and the colors are just for fun. I know you won't like them.

For the best looking gold wheels click the black and white feature under adjustments then click the tint box at the bottom...

That is if you are using CS3 or 4 anyways.

[87e30]

For the best looking gold wheels click the black and white feature under adjustments then click the tint box at the bottom...

That is if you are using CS3 or 4 anyways.

Well I was just about to try this then my CS4 crashed and I hadn't saved the file with the selection done so I'll pass as I'm pretty sure Alex wouldn't want gold wheels anyways.

For selecting the wheels I just used the circle selector for the insides, made a new layer, set the magic wand to like 75 and grabbed all of the bright area, selected inverse, and deleted the darks. Seemed to work pretty well.

I also used color overlay on the layer to get the colors in the wheel. I find it really hard to ADD color any other way seeing as how the wheel starts out as pretty washed out and colorless. Do you use the b/w tint for everything? I'll have to try that.

[speedminded]

Well I was just about to try this then my CS4 crashed and I hadn't saved the file with the selection done so I'll pass as I'm pretty sure Alex wouldn't want gold wheels anyways.

For selecting the wheels I just used the circle selector for the insides, made a new layer, set the magic wand to like 75 and grabbed all of the bright area, selected inverse, and deleted the darks. Seemed to work pretty well.

I also used color overlay on the layer to get the colors in the wheel. I find it really hard to ADD color any other way seeing as how the wheel starts out as pretty washed out and colorless. Do you use the b/w tint for everything? I'll have to try that.

I've always used the color slider before, while adjusting the curve/levels/exposure to adjust evenly in the lighter and darker spots, but I accidentally did it on a wheel the other day thinking I had a different layer selected and it surprised me. Holy perfect gold wheels! I have not tried it with different colors yet...

[speedminded]

I'll hotlink the .psd for ya 87e30 so you don't have to do it over. I selected the wheel center and subtracted the background using color selecter set at 200. Worked perfect.


*edit*
I sharpened the rear wheel to match the front since it was slightly out of focus.