NEW BE to paint

[727 driver]

been on flight sim since 1995..however never did a paint. admitting i know nothing about it and will have to learn .what is the best user friendly program to purchase ...i am using fs9 exclusively. i would like to purchase a program this week but will not make a move until i hear from those of you who know what there doing.thank you for your time and responce...

[Frequent Flyer]

The beauty of repainting... Is that you don't need to purchase any program

DXTBMP is a freeware program that you need to transform your BMP files to DXT files (that's what FSX uses - I don't have FS2004 but as far as I know it should work with it).
Then, you need an image editing program.
I use photshop, but as far as I know Paint.net and Gimp should fit your needs, too.

DXTBMP is available here: http://fly.to/mwgfx/

Hope that helps

[RaptorF22]

If you're using .dds, Paint.NET can open them directly.

[Felix/FFDS]

[movedhere] Aircraft Repainting [move by] Felix/FFDS.