Question about Repainting?

[Corby]

Can you use Adobe Photoshop to repaint and if you can how would you go about it?  If you can't which type of program would you recommend?

[Hagar]

Photoshop is ideal for repainting - providing you know how to use it. Depending on which sim this is for you will almost certainly need DXTBmp.  http://www.mnwright.btinternet.co.uk/index.htm
Read the instructions in DXTBmp Help carefully. Use it to convert the texture for editing in Photoshop. After repainting, save your work & reload the texture in DXTBmp to save it out in the appropriate FS texture format.

[Corby]

Thanks Hagar.

[Corby]

Its for CFS 1, does that matter?

[Hagar]

Its for CFS 1, does that matter?

Yes. For CFS1 you would be better off with ConvR8 from the same site. It will convert & save the commonly used AF texture format. Treat them as R8 & save out using the appropriate file extension. (e.g myplane.0af)
Some later CFS1 aircraft have 8 bit BMP textures which can be read directly by Photoshop. These can also be converted back to the correct 8 bit format with ConvR8.