How to paint a car for iRacing using Photoshop - Part 3 - Spec Maps

[@mdputman19]

I have watched many different tutorial videos on more things that i care remember. Everything from fishing to learning how to play the piano, rebuilt turbos from videos iv watched on youtube. This series is by far the best set of videos that i have every watched in an effort to learn something new. Every single person making how to videos should be required to watch this simply to understand how to teach someone over the internet. This was amazing and now my car looks sick. Thank you for this set of videos

[@Nicxk]

Thanks for providing the first actual video I’ve seen that explains the whole process clearly and concisely

[@secret_one]

Thank you, at last a tutorial on spec maps that actually makes sense.

[@brewerplayz]

Same haha

[@ReplicaRacingOfficial]

Never one to leave comments but for this series you did, I thought I should. As a designer myself, I always found the part having to separate the design and getting the spec map for iracing the most annoying. You really simplified it & made it so easy to understand. Well done!! Now I know a great video to refer people to

[@kirkmarble16]

Thank you 🙏

[@simonometaitsimon]

Thanks you !!!!!! Chrome is mine

[@matthewhendricks1997]

Is this the same process for Adobe Illustrator as well?

[@andrewfairley6299]

if you use Trading paints, but design the car in gimp, and upload to TP it will only show the custom number if you have trading paints pro right?

[@rossphillips2048]

Always can appreciate totorial videos on things like this. However. This can be extremely simplified. Also CTRL click Creates a pixilated layer in the alpha layers. Just CTRL J the layer you want and move it into the position you want. And just color over lay it.

[@TheBeardedGentleman]

Next time I’m painting I’ll have to try that! Thanks! Always more to learn.

[@secret_one]

I have noticed that the colours in the iRacing viewer especialy chrome do not look the same as when in game. In game they look more like you expect them to be. I never got to the end of this video, I should have as it would have saved me time in getting the stickers correct. I ended up cutting them out of the spec map part. It worked but not as easy as you showed here. So thank you very much. Still my goto series to paint car. I would like to see how you would start in photoshop if you had a blank canvas template, adding the stripes and graphics etc. I am not super proficient in photoshop I am more of and illustrator man,

[@brewerplayz]

Spec maps I always tend to do in sim.

[@TheBeardedGentleman]

Yeah the Viewer really isn't great. The lighting doesn't really translate at all. Best you can do is getting close then load into a Test session and look at it and see if it's exactly how you want it.

[@russelldevane5434]

So what you are saying is, just pay someone $20 to make one for you? Got it!