Need help getting the right shade of green

[Fuzzelude]

Hey guys! I'm a complete noob at Photoshop so bear with me.

I'm trying to change the color combo of this car (pictured below) to a black/green combo. I got the paint job okay but the shade of green on the rims isn't really what I'm looking for.



The rims are sort of a metallic finish and I'm looking for a solid green, Takata Green to be exact. This is the type of green I'm looking for:



It's like a solid/gloss finish. I've tried adjusting all the sliders (hue, saturation and lightness) every way possible but I just can't get the same type of green. Help please?

 

[besmirched]

Not sure how close this is as I'm colour blind but I sampled the other wheels colour then made a quick selection around the back rim and then made a new solid colour layer and changed the blending mode to hue.

ps I hope its still green

 

[Redcaa]

You could try use Photoshop's preset color chart things (can't quite remember what it's called this very moment). Desaturate the wheels, make a new layer, set it to color and paint with the selected color on to the wheel.

If you do give it a go (and come out with a decent outcome) post up a pic of it

 

[ibclare]

Or you can activate the selection of the wheels, fill with color, set blend mode. But you'd then apply a mask to paint away the portions you don't want green. So maybe a step more. I do things like this based on which painting will go faster and easier!

Another method is to make the selection of the wheel, use a hue/sat layer to get the exact shade of green you want or close to it. Desaturation and maybe a levels adjustment on the selection to whiten the wheels more will help I think.

I would try all the methods described, because that's how you learn and can discover what works best for you. Enjoy.

 

[cobra]

Isnt it more a case of the colour is matt in the the 2nd picture and gloss in the first that make it look wrong ?

 

[Tom Mann]

Cobra is exactly right. The hue and saturation are very close, but the tonalities are way off - you need to strongly decrease the contrast in the green parts of the rim. Here's a quick and dirty tweak along that direction.

- Tom M

 

[ChrisHPZ]

What I did is find a picture of something that had Takata Green in it. Selecting the eyedropper tool, I clicked on a region that contained the color to load it into the "Set foreground color" section of the toolbar in Photoshop. Now clicking on the green opens the Color Picker dialog box. The hex code that Photoshop revealed in the field marked with a # symbol for the green is 09aa40.