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JimmyK's Nascar Racing 2003 Season Painting Tutorial

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Before we fill in the rest of the second color I'm going to copy the stripes we just did and paste them as new images. These images will become the second stripe. Once I have the new images I'll fill in the rest of the red second color by making another layer UNDER the stripes we just made. Then use the paint brush set to the same color as our stripes and paint in the rest.  Then copy the stripes, copy and then paste, flip and use that to paint the driver's side. Do the same for the fill layer. Since I don't have a picture of the rear of the car I just drew a continuation of the side curves around the back.

Here's what I have so far. I used the car viewer to get the shots

There's not a lot of difference in the 2 reds, but once we get the yellow stripe on it should look pretty good.

To make the stripe I'll use the color replacer tool to change the stripes I saved earlier from red to yellow. After you get 1 side of the car done the next step is to make the yellow stripes across the back of the car, and then copy and paste in the stripes from the passenger side to the driver's side. The reason I do it in this order is so I can use the rear stripes to line up the driver's side stripes. Then I'll add the front stripe to the driver's side using the side stripes as an alignment tool. Here's what it looks like:

I like it! Not too fancy, not too plain. It reflects the colors of the 2 sponsors we will be using quite well. I'm just going to add a couple more things before we get to the decals. Chrome Layers! In the same spot that the templates are at Team Lightspeed there's chrome layers for each make as well. Snag 'em! When I added the 10 layers originally I added 2 chrome ones. I open the chrome layer, copy it and paste it into both layers named chrome. This covers all the paint we've done so far. Not really the effect I was going for. You have to change the blend mode for each of the 2 chrome layers to get what I want. Here's where to get at the tools to do this:

In the layers properties there's also an adjustment for opacity. Its used to make the selected layer more "see through". I'm going to use these on the Ritz car because the full chrome effect makes the 2 different reds look too close in color. I want them to show up as 2 distinct colors. The opacity setting are a matter of personal preference. For that matter you don't have to use the chrome layers at all if you don't want to. 50% opacity gets me the look I want.

Next is adding the decals.