I got my F/090s in white and red with my favorite driver number, and I love the paint job (OWN3D!!!)! No, just joking around with you, gt3_156284. Nice to have you on GTPlanet. I'm John of Houston, TX, USA. Going on 8 months on GTPlanet.
Photo Mode is in the house for GT4 for what I know. When you played Gran Turismo 1, didn't you just hate that multi-color paint scheme for the Del Sol or the Civic? I'd want to paint it up and make it look presentable and sweet. But Gran Turismo has sort of limited you to your imagination. Well listen up. Freedom from this comes in the form of a Paint Shop! Paint your cars any way you want to! Scribble your name all over your car, or your friends! Paint on "Just Married" to your car or "Hi Mom!" to your car! Paint Mode is basically HERE!!!
From a newcomer to an experienced GTP member. GTO_VR4, you mentioned Top Gear Rally for N64. Let me tell you something. That is a wonderful racing game, even if it isn't like Gran Turismo. The game featured a wonderful paint mode. Whatever you painted on the car didn't make it look like you overwrote the skin of the car. For example, if you place an opaque image on the car, you couldn't see the detail of the skin for that certain part of a car? So surely, the Paint Mode must have to have a special "back to default" or "back to blank" feature. Back to Default would mean that whatever car color you bought it in, it will revert to that color. Back to Blank would mean that you get a white car that you can paint up any way you like. I know about this because I used to take blank cars from the PC game "Sports Car GT" and paint them up in special ways. But I'm actually proud about this mode.