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Location: DFW, TX | I wanted to start a thread for sharing Photoshop work from FL members. They can be fun, even if we're a bunch of amateurs.
My dad said the stock colors on my '57 Chrysler would look elegant and 'stately' (UHU - Mist Gray body, Deep Ruby roof and insert). So I figured I'd give it a shot.
Here's the photo I started with.
And here's what I ended up with. The colors are obviously different, but I also removed the antennas and put the license plate and surround from the previous owner on it.
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Location: Oley, PA | Very nice! What version of Photoshop are you using?
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Location: DFW, TX | Greg P. - 2017-01-17 6:12 PM
Very nice! What version of Photoshop are you using?
It's a really old version, CS 5.5. There are a lot of great tools in the newer releases but I've never had a chance to try them out. I have played with PS for my own entertainment for about ten years, pretty much self taught.
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I really like that silver/red!
Thank you sir. It's supposed to be gray, but it seems to be a different color on every monitor.  This is what it looked like the day I found it.
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Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | How did you manage to change the license plate from Minnesota to Texas in the second picture! |
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Location: DFW, TX | I used a straight-on photo of the car when it had that plate on it. Then I massaged it (distorted it, really) to fit over the license plate in the new photo. A little trimming and tweaking of the color, and voila.
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Location: Suwanee, GA | ...but you forgot to change the reflection in the bumper! Nice job though. |
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Location: SWITZERLAND | A good idea, '57burb! This may become an interesting thread, because not a lot to read, but much to see. Here a perfectly cleaned Sketch from a FWL brochure. - SERGE -
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Location: SWITZERLAND | Years ago I did this with some satin effect. - SERGE - 
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Location: SWITZERLAND | . . . . . and here, once I asked the pretty "Swivel Seat" Lady to sit in in my car - and she did! - SERGE -
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Location: Newark, Texas (Fort Worth) | Nice! Wish I could PS. I just cut and paste and scan.
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Location: SWITZERLAND | This is Artwork, how you cut, Marc! Here I added some soft lifting with PS. Now can say: teamwork! - SERGE -
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Location: Newark, Texas (Fort Worth) | Thank you! so Nice to have friend like you all here at FL.Net! Marc. |
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very cool thread...
i have some photoshop's of a '55 Coronet that i'll have to reserve from posting here...
the "original" was a bikini-chick, a '55 Coronet (with a flat tire), and a semi-automatic rifle...
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Location: Ponder, TX | I played with a '56 Fury photo...with apologies to the owner of the beautiful restoration.
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Location: Lower Mainland BC | Very beautiful Fury. I think those wheels look good on it. The look familiar. Dodge Magnum (circa 1980) or Mirada??
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Location: Newark, Texas (Fort Worth) | Clipped the sport tone too Gary. I'd raise higher! Marc in Newark...TX |
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Location: Ponder, TX | The wheels are '80 Cordoba...and yes, Marc, the width of the spear will be narrower than stock but will rise higher in back than the photoshop. Note also, there will be as stainless steel rocker panel cover to help visually lower and lengthen the side profile. |
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Location: Lower Mainland BC | GaryS - 2017-03-07 7:46 PM The wheels are '80 Cordoba...and yes, Marc, the width of the spear will be narrower than stock but will rise higher in back than the photoshop. Note also, there will be as stainless steel rocker panel cover to help visually lower and lengthen the side profile.
Thanks. I knew they were circa 1980 but I forgot about the Cordoba. BTW, I like what you did with the sail panel by shortening its height.
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Location: So. Cal | Danny, since you have the mask already setup, could you make a black and white version of that New Yorker for me? |
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Location: SWITZERLAND | This was another PS test - 10 years ago. - SERGE -
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Location: Ponder, TX | Nice job of incorporating look-alike lines from a jet fighter to a FL. I always liked the F-86/'56 Plymouth comparison in the ads, and the Swiss F5/'59 Dodge share lines very nicely! |
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Location: Lower Mainland BC | GaryS - 2017-03-08 4:49 PM Nice job of incorporating look-alike lines from a jet fighter to a FL. I always liked the F-86/'56 Plymouth comparison in the ads, and the Swiss F5/'59 Dodge share lines very nicely!
Chrysler also played the Jet Fin styling card with the 56 Dodges too.
REF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugbtmgpC7qQ
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Location: DFW, TX | Powerflite - 2017-03-07 11:27 PM
Danny, since you have the mask already setup, could you make a black and white version of that New Yorker for me?
Sure!
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Location: DFW, TX | I photoshopped this drag car back when Randy bought his '57 business coupe:
I started with this '58 sedan.
Ripped off this '64...
..and ended up with this.
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Location: DFW, TX | This one is an animated gif.
I wanted to see what a Firesweep would look like with some of the eyebrows painted body color.
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Location: DFW, TX | I thought this Imperial could be a really great looking car with some minor changes.
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Location: Kansas City, KS | That '57 Imperial looks great lowered even more and leveled out!
I thought I was the only one on this site that liked a lowered Imperial.
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Location: So. Cal | I removed the bumper teeth, blacked out the headlight surrounds, and installed my tires and paint scheme on this one.
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Location: Alberta | The green/black combo works and looks great including the dog dish caps with blacked out bezels. Can anyone do a hood scope similar to this only switching back to front [photoshop] I'm looking for ideas for my 2dr sedan.
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Location: So. Cal | I'm not good enough with this stuff to pull that off. Maybe someone else can give it a shot. Getting the angle & setting right is non-trivial. |
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Location: SWITZERLAND | Another nice, cleaned Sketch. - SERGE -
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Location: San Antonio TX | Not mine, pulled from this blog: http://artandcolourcars.blogspot.com/2012/04/1961-plymouth-fury-design-tweak.html It's not a concept for a custom car, it's a refinement of the 61 Plymouth. He worked out some of the awkward design elements and tweaked others. Looks pretty sharp to me. Having that body line go down the whole car rather than just at the front and back really helps unify the whole design. 
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Location: Branson, MO | Not sure I like the rear wheel opening to be quite that enlarged though????? Car looks pretty good and I do like the blacked out grille. Although I generally like wire wheels, these are just too big for my taste - kinda out of proportion on this car. |
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Location: Lower Mainland BC | Ignoring the headlights, the result looks like it was a concept car done by Ghia. (which is a good thing).
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Location: northern germany | drosera88 - 2017-03-30 12:37 PM
Not mine, pulled from this blog: http://artandcolourcars.blogspot.com/2012/04/1961-plymouth-fury-design-tweak.html It's not a concept for a custom car, it's a refinement of the 61 Plymouth. He worked out some of the awkward design elements and tweaked others. Looks pretty sharp to me. Having that body line go down the whole car rather than just at the front and back really helps unify the whole design.
just terrible, no sense for 50s detroit design. people who like big wheel openings and big wheels should buy a new car, front bumper looks like build at home. terrible. detroit iron is not some ****** italian car for F****** with silk underwear.
it doesn't get much better than this:
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Location: Ponder, TX | I guess I'm in the minority, but I like the subtle changes, except for size of the wheels. The rear wheel opening is very Ghia looking. |
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Location: St. Martins NB | I actually like the look of it and the rear wheel openings, goes back to the look of rear openings of the 1955 Imperial. I actually wish my '55 Windsor had the '55 imperial wheel openings
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Location: northern germany | GaryS - 2017-03-30 8:37 PM
I guess I'm in the minority, but I like the subtle changes, except for size of the wheels. The rear wheel opening is very Ghia looking.
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Location: Vancouver, BC | 1960fury - 2017-03-31 9:52 AM
GaryS - 2017-03-30 8:37 PM
I guess I'm in the minority, but I like the subtle changes, except for size of the wheels. The rear wheel opening is very Ghia looking.
yes, as i said italian..........
No, not Ghia . . . Virgil Exner.
All those show cars Ghia built for Chrysler were designed under the direction of Virgil Exner, not Ghia. And that includes the cars built by Ghia that were not commissioned by Chrysler but look like a Chrysler show car - 1952 Thomas Special, 1953 GS-1, the car pictured in #537044, and the VW (Type 14) Karmann Ghia. They were all based on the designs by Virgil Exner.
The Karmann Ghia was designed by Ghia using Exner's 1953 D'Elegance as a starting point (the D'Elegance was being built when Ghia got the VW contract) and the bodies were built in Germany by Karmann. The Type 14 KG went into production in October, 1955.
In September, 1961 a new KG went into production - the Type 34 - that used the 1500 chassis (Type 3). The front end, though, did have some Exner flavouring with its toned down 1961 Plymouth front end.
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | I recommend the book Virginia Exner visioneer.https://www.amazon.com/Virgil-Exner-Visioneer-biography-extraordinaire/dp/1845841182
The book covers just about everything about Exner and his love of the open wheels.
As stated above the Ghias was Exner design
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Location: northern germany | wizard - 2017-04-01 12:27 PM
The book covers just about everything about Exner and his love of the open wheels.
As stated above the Ghias was Exner design
makes sense, iirc.....according to a fl member and former designer working with exner back in the day, the ONLY (mopar) model that exner designed all by its own was the 60/61 valiant............... which is in my book the ugliest car of the big 3 on american soil in the 1945-60 period.
heres another.....well, lets call it 4 wheeled creature, that exner designed:
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Location: Lower Mainland BC | Chrycoman - 2017-04-01 7:27 AM
1960fury - 2017-03-31 9:52 AM
GaryS - 2017-03-30 8:37 PM
I guess I'm in the minority, but I like the subtle changes, except for size of the wheels. The rear wheel opening is very Ghia looking.
yes, as i said italian..........
No, not Ghia . . . Virgil Exner.
All those show cars Ghia built for Chrysler were designed under the direction of Virgil Exner, not Ghia. And that includes the cars built by Ghia that were not commissioned by Chrysler but look like a Chrysler show car - 1952 Thomas Special, 1953 GS-1, the car pictured in #537044, and the VW (Type 14 ) Karmann Ghia. They were all based on the designs by Virgil Exner.
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Location: So. Cal | Sweepless '58 DeSoto's are really rare. It almost seems that they all came with the trim, but there are a couple that clearly didn't.
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I like the 58 version, but the 57 version just looks like 300 trim, and
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Location: Parts Unknown | When I was hotly chasing leads for convertible 57-58 DeSotos, I learned of
a 57 Firedome that had the single bar side trim. It was a 3-onda-tree car and
was devoid of any options that I could see. The car was turquoise and had
remnants of a white top. It was a RUST BUCKET ! I wish I had that car today.
What an unusual DeSoto !
At the 1992 NDC convention, a local guy pulled a trailer into the show area
with an all white 58 Firesweep ragtop with the single spear like the two shown
above. This car was also devoid of any options, except it did have a Powerflite
transmission. The seats were black (as was the top) and looked like the cheesiest
school bus seats you ever saw. The seats, like the car, appeared to be factory
original, but I have never seen such a stripper interior like that car had. Fleet
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Christine without the white sweep. Was your car originally red ???
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Location: Parts Unknown | Most interesting ! I love stripper-looking cars, and I love weird builds.
The combination of convertible and stripper is just too cool, but I would
struggle with the aesthetically too high location of the single side trim,
and the heavy look of an all-red car. My dislike of red cars is well known,
but this IS an original red car, which is important, but I'd be torn in having
such a pinnacle good looking car and not making the most of that, whatever
"that" might be. This quandary would be much easier for me if it involved
the 57 side trim .... I would go to monotone without a second thought.
One thing for sure, if this car stands out in a crowd now, it would only
stand out more as a single bar side trim/monotone car. I don't think I
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Location: The Mile High City | Thank you Bill! That's fantastic! This is how the car is coded!
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Location: NY & VT | Very interesting to see how it came from the factory! I think Ivan J was right to add the white sweep - usually I'm a stickler for originality, except for when a color change can make a huge improvement. In this case the white sweep really adds to the interest and breaks up the huge mass of red and accentuated the fin. I can see why the factory advised against all red! If'n I'd of ordered a new one, it would have been in pale Lilac metallic (like 1960 Cad color "Heather"), with white sweep and top, but they didn't have that!
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Very interesting to see how it came from the factory! I think Ivan J was right to add the white sweep - usually I'm a stickler for originality, except for when a color change can make a huge improvement. In this case the white sweep really adds to the interest and breaks up the huge mass of red and accentuated the fin. I can see why the factory advised against all red! If'n I'd of ordered a new one, it would have been in pale Lilac metallic (like 1960 Cad color "Heather"), with white sweep and top, but they didn't have that!
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Actually, they did. Check your 1959 color chart under "Spring Special Colors".
I cannot get my head past the red paint. I so deeply dislike red paint on cars,
I cannot juggle a "better" arrangement that does not involve changing the color
of the car. The single bar trim is neat and really unusual, but it ride disproportionately
high on the body for a single rub strip. making not only a massive amount of unbroken
red body, but also an awkwardly placed side trim.
When I found the aforementioned 58 Sweep ragtop with the single bar trim, as
much as I appreciated how bare bones and cool the car was, it was terminally a
Firesweep, and was going to become a body donor for a Fireflite build, had I got
my mitts on the title. Probably best that I did not. It deserved to be preserved
as the odditiy it was.
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Location: So. Cal | Deciding on paint scheme for my '58 New Yorker. I was impressed with how good looking Rock Hudson's New Yorker is so I am leaning toward painting it the Spring Green color like his. I believe the original was Sandlewood Poly color that doesn't thrill me, and which isn't the color currently on the body. I am going to be painting the roof and firewall soon so I need to land on a scheme quickly. The Spruce Green roof like Rock Hudson's is nice, but a white roof might go with a set of whitewall tires better. A silver roof wouldn't be original, but might match the side trim better. What do you think?
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Location: Wild Wonderful | The white just looks like every other car.
The green adds some style. But,
the silver makes it look sleek.
I think the silver is more of what you were going for with this car.
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Location: So. Cal | I am seeing your point Kurt that the white is more common, and it really doesn't work as well as I thought it would with the side trim so I think that one is out.
If I wanted to stick with factory colors, I could replace the silver with gray, or maybe a dull metallic silver.....
Black roof version. Interesting. I was trying to go for something lighter on this car, but maybe....
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Location: Muskego, WI | 1960fury - 2018-05-21 9:01 AM
if you want it sleek (chopped look) try a black roof. black with pastel colors, very 50s.
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Location: Newark, Texas (Fort Worth) | I vote Spring green and Black top also. Is the silver trim paint or aluminum? If it is paint I might just paint it black too. If the windows are solex green tint; this would be a killer combination.
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Location: Lower Mainland BC | mstrug - 2018-05-21 3:25 PM
I vote Spring green and Black top also. Is the silver trim paint or aluminum? If it is paint I might just paint it black too. If the windows are solex green tint; this would be a killer combination.
If the trim in the spear is aluminum, I would vote for the silver roof. If it is paint, I would like to see the next photoshop with that bit black with the black roof. Should look good.
In me 'umble opinion.
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Location: NY & VT | Black with green looks excellent...isn't Rosy's 'Sweep that color?
Doc - the DeSoto Heather Blue Spring color is very different, quite dark, I'm aware of it (have the chips), but here's the color I'd like: '60 Cad Heather... (see next frame) ... Chrysler had a somewhat similar hue in '60 also.
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Location: NY & VT | Cadillac color "Heather": I'll take my '58 DeS in this color with a Pearl White top & side sweep... now this is 'the '50s!!
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Location: DFW, TX | GM used a similar color from the mid '50s to the early '60s that I like a lot, called Persian Sand. Kind of a dusty purplish color.
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Location: DFW, TX | Here is a PS I did years ago of a '57 Adventurer in a pearlescent white and purple combo.
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Location: DFW, TX | I did these utes a while back too. I think this truck is now owned by Austin.
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Location: DFW, TX | I did a few to check out how I wanted to paint my own car, eventually settling on the black with gray scheme. (last pic is a current one of the car)
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Location: DFW, TX | This photoshop is not my work. But WOW does it look nice.
It's a '57 Imperial with a '57 Chrysler roof on it. That's pretty subtle! The front bumper is different too, it kind of meets the wheel opening like a '60 Imperial but it's still a little different.
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Location: So. Cal | I tried to create a copper & black '57 Windsor as I am going to paint mine, but copper is a hard color to get right. It's close, but still a little off.
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Location: Parts Unknown | Substitute "charcoal" (metallic black) for the black accent color.
You get the same effect, just slightly softened, visually. Black is
good, but tends to compliment more primary colors better, like
red or turquoise, than it does the more pastel shades.
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