painting skins, but keeping car lines through signs

[SheppeySwampy]

Title pretty much explains it, i've painted skins for many years but have never managed to get my head around painting the car and keeping the lines of sed car, i.e door lines, plates etc through the signwritting, i know this is done on photoshop which i have so any helpis appreciated.

[erik]

Assuming its Bangers you're on about, its quite simple. Just merge the body panels together (driver's side, passenger's side, bonnet etc), assuming this isn't done already. Then turn them grey using the Ctrl + u thingy. Now copy the layer, and, making sure the copy is above the original, turn it (the copy) pure white (so you lose the details). Then make it an 'overlay'. You can now use the paint bucket to make this layer the colour(s) you want, instead of the white. Once you've made your signs etc, simply merge them onto this layer, then you're done.

 

Hope this helps

Edited May 30, 2007 by erik

[Allan268]

Or quite simply, in the layer box, drag the line layers above to the top above all the sign layers..