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That's a way kewl way to look at paint ideas---how the heck do you do it???

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

That's a way kewl way to look at paint ideas---how the heck do you do it???

Each of the cars was created from the same image. By using an image manipulation program ( Photoshop, Photo Studio or in my case the freeware program Gimp), a base image is created from a simple digital photo. This is the original image I took with my digital camera.

PICT0002.JPG

The base image is created by deleting all the areas I don't want (garage and old wheels) and adding pics of wheels I saved from sellers websites.

baseimage.jpg

After saving the base image, stripes,
stripe.jpg
2 tone areas
2tone.jpg
or the whole painted area
paint.jpg
can be cut out and then pasted back over the base image in separate layers to create an image sandwich. The color, brightness, contrast, opacity and other aspects of each layer can then be adjusted separately.

The checkered background represents transparent areas and the filmstrip is created by selecting multiple completed images with the built in "Filmstrip" feature.