Recolor texture map for NFS3&4 cars?

[mm2mm1fan]

How can I recolor a texture map for NFS3&4 cars?

[zoot]

nfs3/4 cars use grey textures. You gotta color it yourself.

[mm2mm1fan]

But how? Everytime I use the bucket tool in Paint Net, the color goes over the lights and interior, messing up the texture. Is there some special way to make new colors for the cars?

[sajmon14]

Copy the texture and remove all parts that will be coloured and leave only those like headlights etc and later paste them on the edited paintjobs

[dummiesboy]

Or just select the parts you want to color with the lasso tool, and add color to them. You'll get better results if you use a 1 pixle feather on the selections, so that the edges of the colored parts don't appear aliased.

[BIGzee]

1 pixel feather - that's in photoshop is it ? How does it work ?

[dummiesboy]

The way I've always used is to just change the number in the top bar from 0 px to something else. However, I've slso seen it in the menus (Select maybe?).

It basically just fades out the edges of a selection.

[COOLGUY200]

Can I have a couple screenshots? I have started to use Paint.Net for my NR2003 cars. In fact, I might make that a topic if anyone is interested.

[mm2mm1fan]

You want screenshots of the textures?