Fuselage paint

[Rachet1031]

I am trying to repaint the basic white on the fuselage of a repaint kit. I am trying to make it more opaque. I use the magic wand tool but it will not highlight the hole tail section. Certain areas in the tail are exclude. It apppears that it exluding darker areas of the of the tail section (shadow effect?) I have adjusted the tolerence to sveral different setting. But it just wont high light the hole tail section. Any help/tips on this would be appreciated.

It might be that I have to do this with the freehand tool
Just thinking

Pk

[wji]

Which paint program?

[Rachet1031]

Corel PSP X

Thanks

[wji]

Can't give specific suggestions as I use Photoshop but generally speaking don't use Magic Wand to select ares for painting.

You refer to opacity and the paintkit. I'm confused. Usually the underlying paintkit is a solid white (or shaded) with the hatches, rivets, section-lines etc., clearly visible and the repaint is added on a New Layer where the opacity is set by the Layer Properties; e.g., Hybrid Layer in Pixia and Multiply Layer using PhotoShop.

Your Corel product should have an equivelant See-through Layer but I don't know what it's named by Corel.

Remember: Every change or addition must have its own Layer

[Rachet1031]

Thanks wji you are correct. I am trying to add a new white layer to the entire fuslage. When I loaded my repaint, I used the white from the paint kit. It looked really bad. All the layers I added looked good except for a blurry logo which Im going to try the unchecking the mip maps on my next conversion from bmp to Dxt3. I thought I read where I could use the magic wand to highlight the fuslage area the flood fill it, but for the life of me cant find it now. As for the layer type Im not sure what it whould be called in PSP X. For now Im working on this 727 and laughing at my mistake ( some are really bad LOL) and smiling at the ones that come out right. And the layers, my biggest problem is keeping track of the layers while working on the repaint. thank god for the undue button LOL

Pk

[wji]

"I thought I read where I could use the magic wand to highlight the fuslage area the flood fill it"

Well, whatever works for you . . . selecting a fuselage is not brain surgery so the outline (marque tool; polygon lasso; whatever) doesn't have to be that accurate. Because on repaints over-the-line on the kit does not mean it will not appear correctly on the FS9 aricraft.

Here's a screenshot of an AI helo I coverd with a paint_kit pattern in Photoshop and the methods used to accomplish same.



I have several fuselage patterns I've created so can pretty much make the bare hull have any appearance I want. If I was to overlay colors on this one, I would start a New Layer using the previously selected area and instead of Pattern-Fill I'd use Foreground Color Fill and set the Layer to Multiply; thus, all the doors, lines, rivets etc., would show through without degrading the color selection just made.

Finished product for AI use only


Ths whole job took about 20 minutes in Photoshop

[Rachet1031]

Thanks wji again. I used the freehand tool and got what I wanted. Part of the prob was I was trying to hard on being exact on that overlay. Redid it with your recomendations and it came out exactly the way I wanted. I did what took me an hour the first time in less than 5 min this time. Still a long way to go and a lot to learn but making progress.

pk

[wji]

You're welcome . . . we all have a ways to go to get up to the level of artists such as Yochai Mossi