Photoshop Request: Batman Tumbler Desert Camo on JK
09-30-2012, 03:46 PM
#32
JK Enthusiast
Originally Posted by agent00latin
Jahbone
I don't suppose you ever had time to reverse those blacks on the above jeep did you? I think the reverse effect would be easier to do since the gloss black would take up the majority of the space while the flat black could more easily be done as a vinyl sticker.
I don't suppose you ever had time to reverse those blacks on the above jeep did you? I think the reverse effect would be easier to do since the gloss black would take up the majority of the space while the flat black could more easily be done as a vinyl sticker.
I'll try and find a few minutes to reverse it for ya though, it won't be that hard.
09-30-2012, 07:10 PM
#33
JK Jedi
Originally Posted by jahbone
Something like this?
I didn't copy the exact pattern, but instead went for the concept of breaking up the recognizable shapes. Blacked out your wheels while I was at it
I didn't copy the exact pattern, but instead went for the concept of breaking up the recognizable shapes. Blacked out your wheels while I was at it
10-01-2012, 03:24 PM
#34
JK Enthusiast
I went to reverse the stripes, got too complicated and took way longer than I needed to. Then I remembered that in all things, simplify the problem, think of what you're trying to SOLVE rather than what you're trying to DO.
In this case, I originally made a tinted layer mask over the tan paint, colorizing the whole Jeep black while trying to keep some of the glossy quality of the paint. Then I had created a striped layer mask which gave a flat sheen wherever the virtual "stencil" was.
I kept trying to swap the tint and sheen part of the layers, to make the glossy layer flat and the flat layer glossy. This wasn't working. I'm sure a more expert Photoshopper than me would have realized this much earlier, but it took me a half hour of fiddling before I decided to make an inverse mask of the striped layer. So I didn't have to mess with the "paint job" I had constructed- instead, I just created a new stencil that made the flat black appear in the opposite places than it was before.
That approach also gave me more flexibility to try this with any paint scheme if I wanted. Here's the original request, the Bane's army tumbler, but with the pattern reversed:
I hope this inspires someone to do something different with their Jeep! If I can get my friend to cut some vinyl, maybe I'll try something similar on my silver JKU:
01-30-2013, 12:35 PM
#40
JK Enthusiast