How to Design a Car Paint Job
Car color design specialists believe that a car’s body is where you can easily embody your own image. By designing this area of your car you will be able to completely personalize and customize the image you wish to portray.
Things You'll Need
- A notebook
- Some paint swatches
- A computer with a printer
- Collect images of cars that have paint jobs that you like. Take pictures at car shows or search for images online.
- Organize your images into a notebook. Look into the actual paint colors that were used. Try to order swatches of these paint colors.
- Get an image of your car, either by sketching it or by taking a digital picture of it, and load it onto your computer.
- Open the picture of your car in a photo-editing program.
- Try different designs and colors of paint. Use the free form select tool to quickly fill in the whole car with this color.
- Consider using things like racing stripes, pearl and temperature sensitive color changing paint.
- Talk to an auto body paint professional about the desired design. This professional will usually have this paint job recreated digitally before they start painting your car just to make certain that the paint job will be perfect for you. At the very least, they should order the swatches so that they can paint a sample on some metal for you. This will allow you to check it out in different outdoor lighting or show lighting before you ever have to commit to the paint job.