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This is by far my best repaint yet, this is a very fictional repaint but it shows american tradition and pride, this tomcat was based off a diecast model i found.

Looks very colourfull and you obviously got talent as a repainter...

Though you really ought to do something about the quality. You may have a weaker system or something, but this screen just shows it's also the capturing!

Try irfanview, a freeware viewer to capture and resize(!!!) the shots ( 800 x 600 and under 100 kb remember?). This shot has a tiny picture and a huge white surface... hardly appealing...

If you want help, just ask, cause I really think your shots deserve better... I want to see more of those paints!

Cheers,

Omag

Looks great but the quality of the shot will not let us appreciate the details...
You made a little error when resizing your shot. I think you did it with Paint ? Well in that case, you should use the "stretch" function in the Image menu

Sorry everyone, i didnt know my pictures didnt look very good, they look perfect on my computer, yes i could really use some helps in fixing these cause they are gorgeous is full view, too bad i cant post the large pics so you can see the true quality of them, but thats ok, its the forum rules, any help with detailed instructions would be wonderful, and yes i used paint unfortunately, i have windows picture veiwer but that doesnt help, and im not sure how to check the size of the picture before i upload them so sorry about the size limit, so yea im looking for lots of help! any would be appreciated!  And i also have my graphics on low so that probably doesnt help none for my pics!

Hey Phantom... don't worry, we're here to help!

First, download irfanview from www.irfanview.com and install it!

Before you start FS, run the program. Go to options and choose capture. Set a hotkey ( if you press it, you'll take a screenshot, ex. when flying in FS) and don't forget to deselect include mouse cursor! In saving options, you should choose a folder where to save the screenshots. The program will put them there automatically, so you won't have to leave FS. Than press start and go flying!

Now, when you have your shots, choose file and open. Go to the folder where you've saved your shots. Click one one of them and you'll see it appear. Then resize it, using Image - resize/resample - there you can set the width to 800, the height will follow automatically. Than save the shot, using the file tab.

When uploading to simv, set the display settings to details when you browse for your shots... this way, you'll see how "heavy" each shot is.

I'm not sure if Irfanview allows to change the quality of the shot during saving, as I d my resizing in Photoshop. There you can determine how much kb the shot will be. But most of the times you'll see your shots will be under 100 kb using Irfanview!

I hope this helps!

Cheers,

Omag

PS... I took the liberty to resize the shot, one of the mods would have seen it eventually and it would have disappeared...  ;)

Thanks for your help Omag, this will make my shots much better im sure, i really appreciate all the help im getting, now if i could just get some help on how to upload my textures on this site or others.

Ok this is a test then, i downloaded irfanview, so lets see how these look!

[img]http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/americat1.jpg
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Couple more shots:

took pics off to reduce thread size

Took the pic off to reduce thread size

Waaaay better, but they are to big, all over 100 kb... hmm... I wonder why. Perhaps you can fly in full screen mode to remove the windowsbar?

Also, don't forget max. 500 kb in one thread.

Anyone else have bright ideas?

Omag

geez i cant get this right lol, is there any way to change the weight of them, looking at their file sizes, they are all around 150000 bytes, im guesing thats too large lol, can anyone pleae help me so i dont screw that up anymore!

Omag. i just tried flying in Full Screen mode and took a couple snapshots, the were even larger than the ones with the filebar

Textures for this should be up on FS2004 Military newest files soon!  My VX-4 "Black Bunny" is up on page 89!