posted 12-13- 01:43 PM               

TS

posted 12-13- 02:00 PM               

Plus i learned a few things last night on that Metal scheme that would help with weathering.

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Tony "Razer" Martin

"Making SDOE a dangerous Place, One plane at a time!"
FS Hangar

posted 12-13- 03:29 PM               

What I've found very useful recently is having a good wire view 3 way drawing of the aircraft.

posted 12-13- 06:34 PM               

I've got photoshop v5, and am not good when it comes to skinning. Odd really, since I am not a bad artist with oils and acrylics...

What I do for a living involves a lot of report writing, so the actual writing up bit of the tutorial is easy for me to do....

So, if you want to rough out some instructions, I'll check em out, try to do them, and write them up into a tutorial.

might make a good section for the Hangar too!

posted 12-13- 07:08 PM               

The way I dirty skins a bit using a 3 way wire view drawing:

example: Top wing

Starting with the texture, color the area for the top wing with the pattern you want, add markings now also

copy/cut the wings from the wireview and create a new blank texture, past the wings into this.

Resize the wings so they will fit on your texture.

Select a section of the white blank background from the wire view wings, then use "select similar" and all the white will be selected.

Select the Eyecandy filter "swirl" using low settings for whirlpool spacing high detail on the streaks and short streak length, you can re-apply the filter a few times till the white background looks really blotchy, now use "select Inverse" and the wireframe will be selected, now use "select Grow" making sure the tolerance is on a low setting", keep using the grow until you've selcted alot of the blotchy stuff, then hit ctrl C to copy the selection.

Now select your texture and past into it, and then position the frame where the wings should be, now alter the opacitiy of that layer till your happy with it, flatten the image and map it to the wings

The exact same principle applies to the under side of the wings, and the fuse etc, it's a quick and fairly good way of making the joints look like they are weathered.

example pics

posted 12-14- 05:39 AM               

One happy volunteer stepping forward!

posted 12-14- 07:25 AM               

Even if you lost of details at the final rez, it's pretty useful to paint an higher, especially if you use airbrush.
I also bought a tablet (Wacom is a good one), it's much easy to paint with a pen instead of the mouse pointer, you gesture is much natural.
Another thing: group your layers by kind (ie: top wing, left side, tail and so one) with all your fx and markings associated > a little link shows the association. Do not render or combine your layers with a color or fx or markings (excepting for your final tif), you should need to keep them as templates for use this or this, but not this or this for a future painting of the same plane.

But be aware, Photoshop is very hungry of memory, especially with a lot of layers. My PSD (Photoshop Doc) of the French P47 is about 60 Mb (at 1024 however).

Anyway, I think it's almost exciting to paint a plane that to build her.

Good paint.

posted 12-15- 09:33 PM               

hip63

posted 12-18- 04:02 PM               

TS