On Thursday 23 July 2009, Florin Andrei wrote: > (I'm a newbie.) > > I'm trying to modify this image: > > http://imgur.com/5kHey > > It's a 2009 Kawasaki ZX-10R. The orange-red areas need to become silver, > approximately the color of aluminum. Look at the exhaust pipe - that's > pretty close to what I envision. > > I tried converting it to back/white, but the red area is still too dark. > I then tried to play with brightness and contrast, but it looks ugly. > > Is there a way to select the red parts just based on the fact that they > are red? Then somehow get rid of chroma and brighten up just the > selected parts? (while preserving shadows, etc.) > > The goal here is to imagine how the bike will look like once it's > painted silver over the red parts. > > I'm not trying to get anyone do it for me, I'm trying to learn how to do > it myself. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
* use teh select by color tool (just beside the "magic wand" and pick "hue" as the key on the tool options dialog. * play with select/deselect changing the fuzzyness factor unitll you are colose to the orange/red parts boundaries * then do select -> grow selection -> and put soemthing like 5% of image width * select -> feather selection -> the same 5% of image width now, turn of the visualisation of the selection, while keeping it active : * togle 'view-> Selection boundary * 'colors->hue & saturation, drop saturation to -100 * colors -> curves: create a "s" shapped curve until you get the desired looks. then ok. js -><-
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