Not perfect, but...

[beaky]

I liked this idea. I know the light's not just right, shoulda used the gray repaint, yadda yadda, but I'm happy with this fairly quick edit I did with the GIMP. What say the rest of you (go easy on me- i'm new at this)?

[Omag 2.0]

WOW, getting the topgun feeling, are you? Very nice work!

... I've lost that loving feeling, whoa that loving feeling....

[Hagar]

Well, in the first place I think it's remarkable that you actually figured out how to use the Gimp.

Very nice work old chap.

[asda_price]

Wow, that is beautiful mate.  :)

[beaky]

Well, in the first place I think it's remarkable that you actually figured out how to use the Gimp.

LOL, and LOL again! Yeah, it's weird. If you'd like some tips, feel free to ask, but I don't know if I can explain what I do. And God knows I haven't figured it all out yet! But I like what I can do with it. Being able to change perspective on selected areas helped a lot for this one 'cuz in the original picture the plane was a little distorted by perspective. And I always resize my images with the GIMP- it does a nice clean job.

Thanks for the comments- I'll have to have another go at it!

[jknight8907]

Yeah I've got a question about GIMP: Is there a jetwash effect?

[beaky]

Yeah I've got a question about GIMP: Is there a jetwash effect?

Not per se (no "jetwash" button)...  I've never tried to do that, but there are tons of filters in there, and I bet w/some experimenting, you could make a decent jetwash effect (I assume you mean heat distortion mixed with turbulent exhaust?).

And here's another thing: I just opened GIMP to play with it, and remembered 2.0 doesn't come with any Help files!!  No wonder I haven't used it for much besides superimposing, sizing, and airbrushing...

[SideWinder9]

Very nice job!

[Yurei]

very cool edit!
what's GIMP? never heard of it (well......nah won't go into that  ;D)

[beaky]

very cool edit!
what's GIMP? never heard of it (well......nah won't go into that  ;D)

Graphic Image Manipulation Program... free download. Google it. I think they still don't have a Help file ready for the latest version, but it's not that hard to figure out how to use basuc stuff. All I did for this was: cut and paste, resize, change perspective (of cut sections),blur,  and airbrush. Pretty standard stuff. But I really like the way it does these things- especially resizing ("scaling"). It holds the aspect ratio if you want, and willresize by pixels, mm, whatever... and with very little data loss. Nice. Free. Try it!