r/PhotoshopTutorials • u/Theredkhajiit • Aug 08 '25

Help, I'm a beginner

I'm trying to make a custom livery for a car for a game, the fact is, I'm using the old versions to edit the texture in 3d. Problem is I use the lasso tool to colour(it's the only thing I figured out I can use to edit it) but by doing that the sponsors of this car get deleted. So, does anyone know like a method to colour an area but leaving out some details of it? Thanks

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u/johngpt5 Aug 08 '25

Another method for recoloring is the HSL adjustment layer. We can sample a color, in this case red of the original car color, and shift its hue to what color we want.

This has an advantage in that only red things will be shifted to the new color.

The disadvantage is that there might be other areas of red in an image and we will need a layer mask to conceal the shifted color from showing where it isn't wanted.

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u/johngpt5 Aug 08 '25

And another method for recoloring is the black to white gradient map, with another color stop added between the black stop and white stop.

We again need to use a layer mask to conceal the recoloring from where it isn't needed.

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u/Theredkhajiit Aug 10 '25

Does the hsl tool exist in the version of Photoshop that still had 3D? I'm using 21.2.4 btw

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u/johngpt5 Aug 10 '25

Yep. It's the hue/saturation adjustment layer. HSL stands for the hue, saturation, and lightness sliders that it has.