I have a photo of Jaffa’s Le Mans - anyone who knows him also knows it’s orange, (hence the nickname Jaffa).
I assume he took the picture, but it’s taken from the wrong angle - his polish job is so good, the sun reflects off the bonnet to such a degree that it blanks out the detail on one side of the car. So I have Adobe Photoshop, but never really got the hang of it, other than using basic image enhancing and cropping. So - I reduced lightness, which has reduced the glare quite a lot, so now the missing detail is visible, but - the car’s now turned red (O/K - we know it started red anyway) but the Le Mans is known for being orange - not red!
Purists (Like Doug) will notice the wheels are wrong - not BBS - but I like them better than the BBS ones, and presumably so did Jaffa, when he bought them. It now has the BBS wheels back on, but this picture is part of his own collection, and I wanted to improve it if I could, as a thank you for lending it to me. He isn’t going to be pleased though with a red Le Mans, wheels or no wheels!
So - how can I get the colour right, without increasing the lightness level?
I could explain but am on hols until next Tuesday 22Nov.
If no-one’s replied by then I’ll explain but meanwhile try Googling “How to Photoshop change colour of car”.
Where the image is burnt out to base white there’s nothing you can do.
PS Guru
Tried that -all of them. Problem with techies, they either gabble on so fast (like the place is on fire) or mumble so you can’t tell what they trying to say. So, no better off, thanks, will wait for you or someone else to reply.
Had a quick play with the image(quality not great from the web download, so hope the original is better) and this is about as orange as I can get it without it looking like a complete dogs breakfast. You can see that noise and ‘artefacts’ have reared their ugly head now. In an ideal world, you should be working with a RAW file from a DSLR camera and then manipulate the image in Adobe Lightroom. Just my two pence worth. Good luck
Funnily enough - you’ve brought it back to the original photo, but without the glare! I suspect the photo processor turned it red to start with, or it was the type of colour processing of either his software, or the original film. Thanks for your input, at least we are getting there. This is the original -
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