Paint tutorial

Captain Pugwash · Post by **Captain Pugwash** » 21 Jul 2007, 03:37

asking for any help or advice on which paint tutorial is the easiest for a novice to use. i have photoshop 6 program at hand but don't have a clue as to what i'am doing.

UKVoodoo · Post by **UKVoodoo** » 21 Jul 2007, 10:35

Ive found this site to be very very helpful in repainting, also Garry Smiths repaints are nothing short of astounding for aircraft too

http://www.gjsmith.net/Tutorial/tutorials.htm

hope it helps
Matt

Post by **Bridon Bear** » 21 Jul 2007, 20:48

I asked basically a very similar question some weeks ago and now I have uploaded a few repaints of my own. The way I did it was to first of all get fully aquainted as much as you can with your chosen paint program. I see that you use Photoshop 6 which is a good start.

Get Au Fait with the layers procedures and learn how to make selections etc and you are well on the way...

Next thing I did was to read as many tutorials as I could download...some are better to understand than others but they all arrive at the same end eventually. Then download DXT.bmp (a free proggy from Martin Wright) plus a few paint kits and open them up with photoshop and click on the various layers turning them on and off to understand what happens etc.

Doing this will soon get you into the workings of the paint kits and then start by making a small change to one part...say the colour and see how it looks privately in your sim. Experiment with other changes even the registration letters and before long your confidence will develop and you too will be producing your first repaint.

We all started this way...learning the hard way by trial and error....that is the best way to understand what does what and as you will see from the date of my first posting asking a very similar question to you......it can be achieved in a reasonably short time depending on your determination to succeed.

Best of luck and do have a go.

Regards.

Bridon Bear

Post by **Garry Russell** » 21 Jul 2007, 21:15

Good advice there from BB.

That is the best way....just reading tutorials could make it seem harder than it is

Just play around with and existing see what it does and refer to the tutorials as you go

As Brian says the best way is to change serials or perhaps the colour of the striping.

You will soon get to see not only what happens but why it happens..then ther will be no stopping you

Garry

Captain Pugwash · Post by **Captain Pugwash** » 21 Jul 2007, 22:19

many thanks for the advice, have started to play around with photoshop 6. changing colours and adding bits. next i'll try to get the results back to fs and see what a muck i've made.

Post by **RAF_Quantum** » 21 Jul 2007, 22:38

Dave,

Get yourself the demo version of FS Repaint to view your efforts. It reads the aircraft.cfg's and displays the aircraft as a list for you to select. You don't have to convert any files to view in FSRepaint but you do in FS9. Saves heaps of time. Thanks to GR for pointing me this way many moons ago now it seems.

http://www.abacuspub.com/fsd/catalog/s531.htm

DEMO Version. The Demo version is identical to the full version of FS Repaint except that you cannot save the aircraft textures. You'll be able to see your modifications in the FS Repaint 3D window, but you will not be able to fly the repainted aircraft. Download and install the Demo version AbacusFSRepaintDemo.exe (4.5MB).

Rgds

John

Jason32 · Post by **Jason32** » 21 Jul 2007, 23:23

New version of FSRepaint is now available, V2 for Fs2004 and wait for it...

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If you purchased the original FS Repaint V1 after November 1, 2006 and have *Proof of purchase, you can upgrade to the new FS Repaint V2 for FREE. The FS Repaint V2 upgrade is available for download delivery only.

CBris · Post by **CBris** » 22 Jul 2007, 06:59

@ Captain Pugwash...

You can't go wrong with a visit to Simmers Paintshop

It's like the proverbial sweet-shop and you have free access