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Re: What do people repaint with???

Postby TacitBlue » Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:18 pm

that is just a pic, not a repaint of an FS plane...

your probably right though about using it for repainting.
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Re: What do people repaint with???

Postby forfun » Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:32 pm

Paint is not good enough. There aren't layers!! how do you paint without layers!
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Re: What do people repaint with???

Postby Felix/FFDS » Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:34 pm

Paint is not good enough. There aren't layers!! how do you paint without layers!



It is possible - by "thinking" in layers!  Of course, I'll be the first to admit that layering is the method of choice.
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Re: What do people repaint with???

Postby forfun » Thu Dec 09, 2004 12:12 am

problem with photoshop is that i cnt get it to mirror images. Which you can very easily do in psp
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Re: What do people repaint with???

Postby Stratobat » Thu Dec 09, 2004 1:15 pm

It is possible to get half-decent results using Paint, but yeah, layers are a repainters best friend ;D

Done in Paint and Pixia ;D

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Re: What do people repaint with???

Postby forfun » Thu Dec 09, 2004 6:51 pm

did you paint that stratobat?

IN PAINT??????

Your a legend lol
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Re: What do people repaint with???

Postby Stratobat » Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:02 pm

Your a legend lol


Lmao :P

Most of it was done in Paint, the blending was done using the Blur tool in Pixia though :)

The wires on the top of the panel next to the two plates were done using the Free Bezier tool :)

All in all, as a freeware program, Pixia's pretty good. The only problem I've found with it so far is that it doesn't open 32 Bit textures. You need to convert them by either saving them as 24 Bit in Paint or by using Imagetool.

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Re: What do people repaint with???

Postby forfun » Sun Dec 12, 2004 3:35 am

Don't you have photoshop or PSP?

Imagine what you could do with that!!!  ;D ;D
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Re: What do people repaint with???

Postby Stratobat » Sun Dec 12, 2004 4:21 am

Don't you have photoshop or PSP?


I have PSP ;D

I just used Pixia for that project to learn how to use the program. There aren't a lot of tutorials out there for Pixia (Especially with regards to creating FS textures), so you need to wade through the program bit by bit on your own.

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Re: What do people repaint with???

Postby Felix/FFDS » Sun Dec 12, 2004 8:36 am

[quote]Don't you have photoshop or PSP?

Imagine what you could do with that!!!
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Re: What do people repaint with???

Postby Stratobat » Sun Dec 12, 2004 9:07 am

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You see, Startobat is like a connoisseur of fine wines.
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Re: What do people repaint with???

Postby Bell206freak » Tue Dec 14, 2004 9:32 am

When I did the Hoffstadt Bluffs repaint, as well as my Bell 407 TV news helicopter repaint and my Gazelle repaint I used DXTBmp, Imagetool and PhotoDeluxe Business Edition.

I also used PhotoDeluxe Business Edition to reskin the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
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Re: What do people repaint with???

Postby forfun » Wed Dec 15, 2004 5:50 pm

Only Stratobat (and others, let's be frank about it) enjoy PSP, but dabble in pixia, Gimp! and Paint..

lol  ;D
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