{"id":6403,"date":"2008-10-01T17:49:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T16:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-change-the-color-of-your-car-in-photoshop\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:27:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:27:25","slug":"how-to-change-the-color-of-your-car-in-photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-change-the-color-of-your-car-in-photoshop\/","title":{"rendered":"How to: Change the color of your car in Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a white car for more than ten years now and though it still works fine, sometimes I wish I could have it painted again with a brighter color. It&#8217;s quite a pricey change in real life, but if you&#8217;re in this same situation you can at least give it a try in Photoshop. Simply follow this easy tutorial and learn how to change the color of your car (and basically any other object) in just a few steps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/10\/car00.jpg\" alt=\"Change the color of your car in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Open the photo you&#8217;re going to work with and switch to <em>Quick Mask<\/em> mode by clicking on the highlighted button in the screenshot. Then grab the brush and start painting all over the areas you want to colorize.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/10\/car01.jpg\" alt=\"Change the color of your car in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> When you&#8217;re done, switch back to <em>Normal mode<\/em> and the photo will display a selection. Click on <em>Select &gt; Inverse<\/em> and this selection will be limited to just the areas whose color you want to change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/10\/car02.jpg\" alt=\"Change the color of your car in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Press <strong>Ctrl+U<\/strong> to bring up the Hue\/Saturation controls. Make sure the &#8220;Colorize&#8221; option is enabled and start moving the slides until you see a color you like.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/10\/car03.jpg\" alt=\"Change the color of your car in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> Click on OK and your newly colored car will be finished!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/10\/car05.jpg\" alt=\"Change the color of your car in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> Try different colors and see which one you like best.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/10\/car06.jpg\" alt=\"Change the color of your car in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a white car for more than ten years now and though it still works fine, sometimes I wish I could have it painted again with a brighter color. It&#8217;s quite a pricey change in real life, but if you&#8217;re in this same situation you can at least give it a try in Photoshop. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-change-the-color-of-your-car-in-photoshop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to: Change the color of your car in Photoshop&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-6403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335856,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions\/335856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=6403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}