First time repainting help?

ColGray · Post by **ColGray** »

Hi I'm atempting my first repaint heres how far i got

my question is could some one who has made an aircraft from the 357th fighter group post a picture of their aircraft in th paint kit to show me how they made the checkers and the prop hub? mine was just a guess.. I've been reading the tutorial but theres nothing in there about checkers

pilottj · Post by **pilottj** »

You might try opening one of the other 357th schemes in your paint program, then copy their scheme on to yours as a layer, then use it as a guide.

Cheers
TJ

ColGray · Post by **ColGray** »

alright how do you copy and paste? layers I've already attempted that with checkers before

A2A Youtube · Post by **Lewis - A2A** »

If using photoshop-

-Open the file and press cntrl-a (select all)

-Open your own repaint

-Select cntrl-v (paste)

-This will create a new layer over your repaint. Change the opacity so you can see through it and you can now use it as a template for how to draw your own checkers

ColGray · Post by **ColGray** »

Thank you ill give that a shot but when I tried to open gentleman jim it said ps could not open raw files..the link sent me to a page about digital cameras..could you explain this??

A2A Youtube · Post by **Lewis - A2A** »

Do u have the plugin installed in photoshop? Check it is installed correctly. If not using the plugin you will have to use DXTBMP to convert the files.

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ColGray · Post by **ColGray** »

hmmm i have it installed i'm not sure about having it installed in photoshop.. could you describe how to do that?

ColGray · Post by **ColGray** »

heres another problem when i try to open old crow so i can see the checker board red and yellow

please help on this one too

ColGray · Post by **ColGray** »

it says file cannot be opened for it is a raw file or something like that..

Musicman · Post by **Musicman** »

As mention above. You need DXTBmp to open the dds files. http://fly.to/mwgfx/
It's free and a must have tool. Use it to convert dds to bmp and then back to dds. Make sure you save as DXT 5 with no mips.

ColGray · Post by **ColGray** »

when i tried to open Gentleman Jim through DXT It could not see it even though i made a new folder for the dds file and unzipped it...

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