Hi everyone! I’ve watched every YouTube video, i’ve tried every method, and I cannot get chrome/metallic paints to work for me. I’m very experienced with Photoshop, so I feel like it has to be something small I’m missing and I was hoping someone here could help me out.

The biggest issue I’m having is that my colors are either showing up completely black or with the blue/pink instead of my actual paint colors. The chrome and matte effects are correct, but the colors are wrong. I am using Trading Paints pro, so i’m wondering if its perhaps something I’m doing wrong with removing/adding TGA files in the iRacing folder on top of using Trading Paints.

The black paint issue happens when I delete every thing off of Trading Paints and try to do it manually with the TGA in the documents folder.

and the Blue and Pink issue happens when I try to upload my design with trading paints, even after I upload the provided MIP in custom spec maps.

Any help is super appreciated, and I would be happy to send my PSD’s to anyone who wants to look at them. Thank you in advance.