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How to change the colors in this PNG - SOLVED

davesodaveso Posts: 7,796
edited May 21 in The Commons

The png file is the texture? mapping of a low rez car. The png and a rendered image ore attached. I want to change the color of this car, but it looks near to impossible to me, but I think there's a way. Does this involve UV mapping and all that or how would anyone change the color. I tried to just change the base color in surfaces but that just put basically a different shade of original, depedning on  if its a lighter or darker color. 
I'm trying to use a set of custom low rez cars, which there are 50, but it would be good to have differing colors. I looked at this in the layered image editor, but I don;t think it will work that way. I pulled it into my photo editing program, but it seems near impossible, especially the way the shading is done. 

See, this is what always happens to me when I actually try to render stuff laugh It does create some learning opportunities though. 

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,079
    edited May 20

    Please don't post what is, presumably, a copyright image. You could try using colour adjustment tools, or overlay a flat layer of the colour you want and set the blending mode to Hue (if your image editor supports that).

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  • felisfelis Posts: 5,771

    Different options as I understand it.

    I assume you have the original texture.

    Then in an image editing SW desaturate and probably lighten the picture. Then you will be able to use any color in the base channel.

    Alternatively mark all the red (by select by color), and then adjust hue of that.

    If the red is one surface, you could apply a shader to that.

  • joannajoanna Posts: 2,245

    If you want to do it in Daz, you could try Texture Booster or Xtreme Reshade. I have both, but only tried the Booster so far, and it requires tweaking to get the right color (though I was very happy with the results for what I needed them), so Reshade might be a better option for you.

  • dtrscbrutaldtrscbrutal Posts: 567

     NOTE: This will not work very well with very light or very dark colors and will add a tint to areas you might not want.


     In GIMP load your image and create a new layer. (right click - layer - new layer) Insure your new layer is selecteted in the layer panel/window and fill the new layer with your choice of color. (avoid pale and very light or dark colors.)
     In the layer panel/window locate the "Mode" section (above opacity and below the icons), click the arrow and select "HSV Hue" (it is toward the bottom of the list). You may want/need to clean this up by erasing any unwanted areas of color/tint.
     

    An alternative would be to add an appropriate shader to the car, render, then layer that image over the original and erase the unwanted areas.

  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,796
    edited May 21

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Please don't post what is, presumably, a copyright image. You could try using colour adjustment tools, or overlay a flat layer of the colour you want and set the blending mode to Hue (if your image editor supports that).

    i guess it might be copyrighted. Its no different than the textures that come with any other product sold here. Anyway, thank you, it appears that did work, at least with the color layer I tried. 
    Thanks to everyone else for suggestions.  

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  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,600

    daveso said:

    i guess it might be copyrighted. Its no different than the textures that come with any other product sold here. 

    You're not allowed to post texture files from Daz products on the forums, either.

  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,796
    edited May 21

    Gordig said:

    daveso said:

    i guess it might be copyrighted. Its no different than the textures that come with any other product sold here. 

    You're not allowed to post texture files from Daz products on the forums, either.

    oh, OK. didn't know that, but I will say it is near impossible to say what I need to paint without seeing the thing I want to paint/change color. At least I can't explain it. It's nothing I've ever tried to change color on, that's for sure. 

     

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