Painting with Stinky

[Jeff H.]

I'm going to try to do a few painting tutorials using Photoshop. If you use Gimp, FourteenBones has some excellent tutorials already in this forum. Photoshop is a little different and I'm no expert but these tutorials are just how I do it. I'm sure there are many shortcuts, etc. that I am unaware of. I'm still learning too!

Today, we will be doing windows for the V8 Supercars.

This is the Holden window template that comes with the V8 mod.



So first off, let's go ahead and select the name layers and change it to your name.



Then do the same thing with the numbers.



Then if you want to change your banner color, select the Window Banners layer and use the magic wand tool to select the banners. (Select the red area in the banner then Shift+Click to select the other one.) Alt+Backspace will fill it with your foreground color. In this case, I'm using orange.



Now comes the tricky part! It took me a while to wrap my head around this. Ctrl+Click the layers as I have in the picture below:



Then Ctrl+E to merge the layers. Then Ctrl+Click on the box area of the merged layer to select it. You will see dotted lines around your selection.



Now, go to the Channels tab and turn off the RGB layers and turn on the Alpha layer.



Make sure your Alpha channel is selected and also make sure your foreground color is white, then Alt+Backspace to fill it with white.



Next, turn the Alpha back off and reselect the RGB layers.



Go back to the Layers panel and Ctrl+D to deselect everything. Then choose Layer-Flatten Image to flatten your window.



Now save it as a DDS file and your window is done!

Happy Painting!!

[Jeff H.]

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[F1Fan07]

Thanks Stinky. I can do this stuff but I'm self-taught so every time someone makes a tutorial I learn a few new tricks like ALT+Backspace.

[Dan W.]

I've been doing everything from the 3rd pic down the wrong way. Never even involved the Alpha layer, because you don't have to deal with it on the body.
I've been trying to do the windows same as the body the whole time.
Thanks man, back to the drawing board.

[zero7159]

I think I am going to buy Photoshop Elements and give this painting this a try. Stinky, is Elements the program you are using?

[spazsterian]

I believe you need the CS series Craig. I'm using CS5.1 64 bit. ( but it was part of the um evaluation master collection i have). You need to be able to get the nvidia DDS plugin. I think you can do it in gimp too...and it's free.

[Jeff H.]

I use photoshop cs5. You will need either photoshop or gimp to use the dds plugin as Spaz said.