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No matter how hard and crisp you get the light reflections, you will always be missing the darker reflections found on the lower half of the car (the reflections of the surrounding area up to the horizon).
I would find a good picture of a shiny truck that sits at a similar angle, tweak the colors to match closely to your truck, and then drop in the panels over your existing panels and blend.
Doing it by hand would still involve finding an image of what is to be reflected, masking it, distorting it, and blending it onto the panels anyway. I wouldn't bother with all of that, unless there is something very specific you want reflected in the finish
I can't get a shiny or glossy look on this truck.
Does anybody have an idea how to achieve a "new car look"?
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This has been here before, very same image or is my radar slightly off and it was somewhere else, either way a great thread.
No matter how hard and crisp you get the light reflections, you will always be missing the darker reflections found on the lower half of the car (the reflections of the surrounding area up to the horizon).
I would find a good picture of a shiny truck that sits at a similar angle, tweak the colors to match closely to your truck, and then drop in the panels over your existing panels and blend.
Doing it by hand would still involve finding an image of what is to be reflected, masking it, distorting it, and blending it onto the panels anyway. I wouldn't bother with all of that, unless there is something very specific you want reflected in the finish
That is just a superb approach .... and not just because it's *exactly* what I would have recommended had I seen this first. LOL.
In fact, I maintain an archive of faces for exactly the same purpose, especially when you need to repair some area and can't simply flip the face (say, because of lighting).
Thanks, guy!
Tom
Wow! amazing work! Don't know what to say.
Thank you Clare, Larry and egosbar for your posted images. To me all of them look now to dark, and the paintwork is not really glossy. What I have in mind is a "new car look".