Need help with making a custom color and drawing basic lines.

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JohnAAnderson
Oct 14, 2003
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I am new to Photoshop. I am hoping someone can help me here. I run a business selling chrome grille accessory kits for autos. An obvious increase in sales is evident if I can provide before and after pics of our kit on the cars I sell the kits for. Basically here is what I am trying to do….I have enclosed a pic below. You can see the chrome border of the grille and then the black diagonal slats above it. I want to be able to take the color of the chrome border and use it to draw lines in that chrome color onto the diagonal slats. So…
1-How do I make that chrome a custom color?
2-How can I draw a diagonal straight line in that color?
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Colin_Walls
Oct 14, 2003

1) the Eyedropper tool samples a colour from your picture – problem is that the chrome area has lots of reflections and thus contains dozens of colours; the best you can have is an average

2) the line tool is the obvious way
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Ol__Whozit
Oct 14, 2003
It’s definitely going to require some artistic endeavor…

Unless the picture is such low res that you need to use a one pixel line, Enlarge the area where you’re going to work.
Use the Polygon Lasso Tool to draw where you are putting the grill On a New Layer, Fill the shape with white, Deselect.
On a New Layer, with the Polygon Lasso Tool, Select a section of the area to Fill with a blue-to-white gradient sampled from the photo.
Reduce the opacity of the chrome layer to match photo.
Repeat the last two steps for angles as needed.
At a higher zoom detail, use the Airbrush Tool with some darks and whites (sample from original)to paint smoothing stokes.
Use the Blur Tool (2 px @ 40%) along seam lines to smoothe ‘jaggies’

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