Color matching via photoshop?
 

Ok a friend of mine is getting his FC painted and fell in LOVE with a member's car. He has sent PMs asking the color name and/or color code and hasn't gotten a reply. We both agreed that it looks a lot like the 350Z Daytona blue, but the owner of the car my friend loves the color has the screen name "photoshop addict". we were wondering how believable the 350Z needed to be photoshoped to look like the FC. To our surprise, it took only a levels adjustment with NO hue change. this means that, assuming the whitebalance of both images was properly adjusted(it looks ot be so) the colors are a correct match in COLOR but not matching in darkness/lightness. However given the lgithing conditions in both of htese pictures, the difference is most likely created via the power and luminocity of the light (sunlight vs. parking garage). So, in a sense, these colors could be exactly the same, with the 350z only being lighter because of the sunlight. Also, the pearl compound seems familiar. My friend is concerned because he wants the FC's pearl, but the 350zs looks less exaggerated. I proposed that it is the extreme fender angle on the FC combined with direct overhead lighting creating the dramatic highlight, and the vast ambient lighting of the sun on the 350Z makes the highlight less pronounced due to diffusion and ambient reflection. What do you say based on the pictures? Only adjustment to the Z was levels to darken.

https://i108.photobucket.com/albums/...comparison.jpg

It's not a stock color.


-Ted

I'm beginning to question weather or not you're on the stock human brain, or if you got a cheap replacement at pep boys? Because that statement you made was VEEEeeeeeeeery obvious.

Made this to emphasize, and I was bored.

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n...tion-small.gif

Yeah, and I already know you're a dumbass...

https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...76#post8384676

Stop fuckin' wasting our time.


-Ted

Hey, I was just trying to help a friend out. Don't comment on a thread if you have nothing useful to add, no need to be an ass hat because you feel I am wasting your time. Next time avoid the thread.

You'll never match a paint colour by pictures. <---Yup I used a period.

But it looks very similar, yes. Go to a body shop and go through a colour chip book - you'll find 60-80 blues like that from various OEM's over the last 5-6 years. Pick one you like, spray, drive, be happy.

No, you're so stuck on trying to get the answer you wanted, you ignore any other "useful" comments.
I did help you.
You can eliminate all the stock OEM color combinations.
Obviously, this isn't enough for you.

I *WAS* going to say the same thing classicauto said - take the pic to a competent auto body shop - but since you're being a bitch, you can go swim on your own.


-Ted

sorry guys, but this thread is already getting a little out of hand....


locked.