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Question about re-painting programs (Photoshop)

Well its like you say, you can give a man to fish, or you can teach him how to fish. I figured you were kind enough to do the paint, so the least I can is figure how to put a registration on it. Intend on painting the B-17G in the same paint scheme as well. :cool: If my experiments pan out I want to customize all of my aircraft. Messing with the GIMP software now.
 
Thank you guys for keeping $100 in my pocket... GIMP seems to do all that I want to do with my birds. I will post some screens up when I get home back to FSX. For now I will just play with the B-17 paint kit and hopefully get better with it.
 
falcon409 said:
Yep, I use Paint Shop Pro as well (8.0) and it's excellent.
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I've been a registered user of Paint Shop Pro since version 1.0 (Many moons ago) and v.8 is the one version that spent the least amount of time on any of my machines.....

I still have 7.0 on my office laptop, but have X, X2 on my "development" machines.

I've fiddled with other programs from time to time, but always come back to my "security blanket" of PSP.
 
Yep, everyone has a favorite something or other and skinners, repainters, texture artists. . .whatever, have their favorite programs and their reasons for being passionate about them. Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop, Photoplus, Gimp, it makes no difference, they all have their good points and bad, it's simply a personal preference. They'll all do what you need them to do, it's just whatever you feel most comfortable with.

As all of us have beat into the ground, the most important function is layering, without that you're very limited in what you can do. It looks like Roadburner has made his decision and I'm sure we wish him the best in his future as a repainter. May your road be paved with as few bumps and bruises as possible and may your layers be merged and flipped successfully.:salute:
 
Skittles said:
If you don't go with GIMP you're clinically insane.
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You'd best call the men with the white coats then cause I hate GIMP. I like everything on one screen and the gimp uses two plus the file handler is an absolute pain in the arse. Having said that, I still use it on occasion (for making Normal maps for one thing) plus it was able to open a Photoshop file whch PaintShopPro couldn't. I 've also noticed that the GIMP can be rather slow when handling large files (5000x5000+ pixels which I sometimes use for photoreal scenery).

Still, if you can figure out how to use and be comfortable with the GIMP then good luck to you. You've saved yourself $100 which you can spend on more FSX stuff :)

I used to use a free copy of Photoplus 7.0 that I got off a computer mag DVD although compared to PaintShopPro X2 (which is the main program I use now) it is very limited.

If you go to the various publisher websites you may be able to download a demo version. I think there is a demo for corel paintshoppro and photoshop but I don't think there is a demo for photoplus.
 
Skittles said:
If you don't go with GIMP you're clinically insane.

In terms of repainting aircraft, there is nothing you can do it photoshop that you can't do with GIMP.

If you were a high-end graphics editor then you'd choose photoshop (that said, only for the user interface which is slightly easier for some tasks) but for chucking some paint on aircraft? GIMP all the way.

For you it would be mental to spend any more than £0.

Whatever you go with (gimp) give it some time to become accustomed to the program. It's not like MS paint. You'll have plenty of frustrating moments. A good example is trying to draw on your image and nothing shows up: "Why aren't you showing up? I've got the paint tool, now paint. WHY WON'T YOU SHO....wrong layer."
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While I know Skittles didn't mean to imply actual insanity, we all need to be careful with descriptive words which can be inflammatory. Terms such as above have more than once in the past started a flame war that destroyed the educational value and pleasure of the post.

Just be careful, please!
 
I tend to not take stuff in the literal sense, but understand your point. It sure does take awhile converting files back and forth, and opening them. I managed to add a registration to my P-47D though (although it is backwards on the one side, but that isn't very hard to fix). Messing around with the B-17G repaint kit though and that seems like it is going to be a much harder task...
 
Roadburner440 said:
. . . . .Messing around with the B-17G repaint kit though and that seems like it is going to be a much harder task...
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Yep, with progress comes confusion, lol. FS9 was so much easier, but apparently there is so much more you can do now with specular lighting and bump mapping, yada, yada, yada, lol. Paint kits (when done correctly) have become more involved, more layers to play with (or get lost in) and of course then there's the obligatory merge and flip before you convert to DDS. There are some true artists among us that have produced some amazing liveries, folks who take this livery painting to a whole different level and then there are those like me who splash some paint on the various layers, merge, flip, convert and fly. . .totally oblivious to what could have been if we took it seriously, lol. I don't, but I'm also glad that there are those who do. You can choose to be anywhere along that line that you want.:salute:
 
Paint.net, because the magic wand tool is more than awesome.
GIMP for the whole rest.

Money spent - $0.00
 
Well I must say after painting aircraft in real life (for 7+ years now) I would of thought this to be easier.. but now I think it is easier to take a few hours, mask off the entire helicopter, wait for it to dry, re-mask off all the marking and paint it. I see what you guys are talking about with the layers though. Before I was painting over rivets and such, but it is easier to take a color layer, and move it to the back, make the current layer slightly transparent (or vise versa).. My issue now is I'm trying to get rid of the bomb markings on the nose (the yellow ones), and those are all kinds of integrated in with the rivet/skin lines right there.
 
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