Photoshoppers

[P4ULuk]

Hi Guys,

Can someone photoshop this pic for me please?
I'd like the colour changed to a red to black fade(red at the back of the marker)
And if you're feeling very clever have the frame in the background on the marker!

Cheers Guys,

Paul.

http://paintballnorthwest.com/catalog/images/DTQVik.jpg

[JAM]

well, here's a quick try...

-j

[PzYcO]

whoa i keep looking back and forth, it CANT be the same gun... :P

[P4ULuk]

Sweeet!

Cheers mate, feel free to put other colours up, am trying to make my mind up as to what colour to go for.

Again, excellent work!

Paul.

[pito189]

JAM, you are a crazy man, that is awesome.:D :eek:

[manike]

Paul, why bother picking a colour?

You'll just change it every two weeks anyway ;)

BTW, Jam that is great work!

[P4ULuk]

Originally posted by manike
Paul, why bother picking a colour?

You'll just change it every two weeks anyway ;)

BTW, Jam that is great work!

Imagine the colection I'd have if I didn't have to sell 'em!
*drool*

Custom cocker,
Angel LED,
2000 Angel LCD,
X mag,
Half milled DD Viking,
I-framed Freak Factory Impy,
Featherlite Viking.

Geddon,
A.I.R,
4500 Flatline,
4500 Maxflow.


Yummy!

Paul.
:)

[JAM]

well, i lke the fade a lot, but I'm partial to pewter after seeing those xmags.... dang that's nice.. here's a few more- green, blue and pewter.

-j

[P4ULuk]

Awesome mate!

how about a blue to clear fade?

Cheers and again, excellent!

Paul
:)

[sneak1]

very impressive jam, I applaud your quick work, we could have used you my freshmen year in college. Fake id's back then looked so bad.

[dcmander]

Hey JAM or someone else..

Could you please photoshop this gun, and make it the pewter color of the SFL below it? I would do it but I don't have photoshop installed on this computer!

Thanks. It would be sweet if you could put a LAPCO barrel and a Dynaflow with no drop on it too but I don't have pictures of those. Thanks a lot!

[dcmander]

Here's the pewter color I want. Thanks.

sorry don't know whos SFL that is..

[JAM]

Originally posted by dcmander
Hey JAM or someone else..

Could you please photoshop this gun, and make it the pewter color of the SFL below it?

Not really... there's not enough contrast in the original pic... so it would end up loking like a gray blob.

-j

[pito189]

LOL, JAM I just noticed your Signature picture, the paintball looks like he has a huge grin on his face.

Smiling cause he knows he is the king.

EDIT: sig remove

[Me]

what is that?

[Ultimator]

JAM, if it's not too much to ask ... could you do this in Yellow - Green - Blue (blue in the back) and Yellow - Orange - Red (red in the back)

Sorry trying to decide if I want to get my imp re annodized.

EDIT: Look below for pic.

[Ultimator]

http://www.automags.org/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=604922I have a feedtube now but my digi cam isn't working.

[JAM]

Here you go Ultimator...

-j

[JAM]

I vote for the yellow-green-blue.

[spantol]

Ah, the bandwagon.

JAM - I'd be forever in your debt if you could do any of the pics here (http://www.robagd.com/xmags/) in a black-front to pewter-back. Even more so if you can do both dust and gloss. :)

[PzYcO]

Could you recolor the warp in this pic to clear center and outlined black? =) Also, fade it red in front to black back(the gun) thx

-pzy

[dcmander]

I'm trying to think of what a pewter micromag 2k vert feed would look like.

If someone could post a pic for JAM to photoshop thatd be great.

Thanks.

[jwren00]

jam, what tools in photoshop do you use? i have the new photoshop 7.0 and i want to play around with the colors on my gun, i can't figure out how to do it?

[jwren00]

this is about the extent of my photoshop ability, it still looks cool though. colored pencil filter:

[Ultimator]

Originally posted by JAM
Here you go Ultimator...

-j Holy poop. That yellow-green-blue looks tighter than I thought it would.

[FordPrefect]

Hey JAM, could you make this a black-blue-yellow fade, this switched a Boomstick, I want that on the other side of the pic with it black grip and feed tube, and a white body. Please?










P.S. Could you make this girl look hot?



;)

[CoFFeY[NiTrO]]

Originally posted by FordPrefect


P.S. Could you make this girl look hot?

;)

That is where the alcohal comes in my friend.

[Automaggin2]

hehe

[Grayso]

Wow, Photoshop is really amazing. Hey Jam, could you do a 2003 Autococker in a yellow to red fade. I am thinking of having my next gun annoe'd yellow to red. It would be cool if you could help me out.

[JAM]

Whoa whoa....

the response is overwhelming... kind of like when I offered to do logos for everyone (I still have my list and am slowly working through it). I can't do everyone's gun in every color combo imaginable. I wish I could but I have a job and should spend more time at it than I do on these boards... I'll do the ones I can, just no promises. like the xmags- the ones who get requests in forst are the lucky ones, but eventually everyone can get one.

-j

oh, and Photoshop 7 is tha bomb.
In an effort to empower AO to color their own guns, here is the JAM tutorial that takes some basic photoshop knowledge to get through, but here you go:

To recolor these, basically do this:

1. Make a new layer over the original
2. use the lasso to select the part of the gun to color
3. select the gradient tool
4. double click the gradient swatch at the top left of the screen
5. edit the gradient to your liking
6. click and drag the gradient tool in your selection to fill it
7. repeat step 6 until it is how you want it
8. change the transparency mode of layer 2 to multiply
(click the dropdown at the top of the layers palette that says "normal")

That should be it... you can tweak transparency and the like.
the quick way to edit it once it's done is to run the image/adjust/hue saturation and change the hue.

* I make no claims that this will make you a photoshop expert, but hopefully it will help some of you.

-j

[P4ULuk]

Hi Guys,

I showed this thread to my mate who is by no means a photoshop expert, within about half an hour he was churning out the viking pic in many different colours, give it a try! From everything I've heard its not that difficult :D

Thanks for the instructions Jam! :D

Paul.
:)

[PzYcO]

hmm Jam, ive got a problem, this is what mine came out as, any suggestions?

[PzYcO]

heres one a lil better, would rather a fade tho

[synreal]

Originally posted by PzYcO
heres one a lil better, would rather a fade tho

black/dark objects are a nightmare to recolor (there is a reason car companies almost alway do their product shoots with neutral, light-colored vehicles).

your only real hope is to create a new layer with just the bits your want colored and play with the hue/sat/lightness until you get it to look close. and then dump JAM's method on top of that layer. even then the results are never stellar.

[pito189]

You could try to take a picture of the gun against a white background. That might help?

[synreal]

pito189- while helpful to make the image look better as a whole, a white background doesn't aid very much in the recolor process. "multiply" layers more or less add additional pigment to that section of the image/layer. if the section is already dark (ie: bunches of pigment) simply adding more will only make it darker, not really recolored.

you first have to go in and rip out some of the existing colors, while maintaining image details (shapes, hilights, shadows, ...) then apply the color mask to the area to get some semblance of what the dark item would look like if it were originally colored a lighter tone.

the 5 minute version:

[pito189]

Originally posted by synreal
pito189- while helpful to make the image look better as a whole, a white background doesn't aid very much in the recolor process. "multiply" layers more or less add additional pigment to that section of the image/layer. if the section is already dark (ie: bunches of pigment) simply adding more will only make it darker, not really recolored.

you first have to go in and rip out some of the existing colors, while maintaining image details (shapes, hilights, shadows, ...) then apply the color mask to the area to get some semblance of what the dark item would look like if it were originally colored a lighter tone.

the 5 minute version:

pito = OWNED!


;) :D Nice job.

[JAM]

Yup, what synreal said.

you can also use the levels command on the original (back) layer and bring up the black so that it will be darker to match the colored part.

Also, lower the opacity of your color layer just a bit, nothing in the real world is quite that bright.

But in general, the more neutral your original image the better. Nothing recolors like a dust pewter or dust silver.

black is really hard and so is chrome.

-j

[PzYcO]

meh i give up its too hard can i please get a black front to red black fade on the hole gun like synreal did? (just the other way around) plz thx

[FalconGuy016]

I really, really, really, REALLY want to do this kind of stuff.

[P4ULuk]

Here's some my mate did.

[P4ULuk]

Green purple.

[PzYcO]

homoriffic!

[PzYcO]

C_Mayhem's new paint job..

[jwren00]

jam, do you use the magnetic lasso tool?

[JAM]

jwren-
the magnetic lasso is cool, sometimes it works better than others, but i've been using photoshop since vers 1.5 and I'm just really used to the traditional tools. Shortcuts are cool, but in my experience most of the new tools like that are a little gimicky and more frustrating than they are worth.

-j

[omni]

Here is a semi looking pewter micromag, I tried :D
ITs hard to get black to go any other colour.

Barrel and all other stuff is orig colour.

http://207.44.172.24/~admin7/omni/p-micromag.jpg

[jwren00]

playing with it a little, im getting better

[jwren00]

another rainbow one! the color shows up real nice on it though...

[TraXeR]

my first try

btw, ill work on that xmag for ya

[Ultimator]

Originally posted by PzYcO
homoriffic! ..... no. :)

[alkafluence]

Originally posted by PzYcO
whoa i keep looking back and forth, it CANT be the same gun... :P

It's like, where in the heck did the grip frame go... That trick is impressive!!!

http://www.sigphieta.org/~jeremy/images/redfade.jpg

http://www.sigphieta.org/~jeremy/images/mod_redfade.bmp

[TraXeR]

here you go spantol

[magman007]

Actually, the rainbow mag that you did up for mayhem looks pretty cool man!


same with that rat. Good job guys



also, if you didnt notice, he completely removed the other gripframe, and transported the one on the side onto the marker