Originally Posted by jahbone

I think about it every once in awhile but come back down to paying for a winch or shocks or stuff that helps me wheel

If I ever get laid off I may have to consider putting some patterns together for real.

Originally Posted by jahbone

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In this case, I originally made a tinted layer mask over the tan paint, colorizing the whole Jeep black while trying to keep some of the glossy quality of the paint.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:

Originally Posted by DJ1

Hey Jahbone, while you're here and still around, you think you can do a black & white version LOL

Originally Posted by Cutman

I've always had the same kind of vision for my ride one it's old and ragged. And I'm pretty good with PhotoShop, but do you think I could pull off anything like that with Copperhead Pearl? No need to create a render, but let me know what would work color-wise?

Originally Posted by jahbone

heh, I might do a black and white for you when I get back from Vegas this weekend.