Getting rid of orange indicators

[Keith Fusco]

Another dead simple photoshop technique to get rid of those orange indicators, and change them for silver.

Firstly open your image of the orange indicator you want to get rid of. I chose a nice close picture of a D's rear light:

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1299/01ux1.jpg

Select the lasso/magic wand tool, and select around all of the orange, which needs to be turned to silver, like so:

http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/5514/02px0.jpg

Then you need to go to Image > Adjustments > Desaturate. [You can also use the shortcut of Ctrl + Shift + U].

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/3634/03bs3.jpg

Then there you go, you have a silver indicator.

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/8532/04vb6.jpg

Time to save, and show off!

[Gazza_DJ]

Just to add - sometimes, its a good idea to play with the brightness / contrast setting, because when you desaturate, you might lose some of the 'shine'. just have to have a play to try and bring it back :)

[Keith Fusco]

Yep, correct. :)

I done one before, and it ended up blue, compared to the rest of the car, so I had a little fiddle, and it came out the right colour.