Post by Pash Master on Aug 8th, 2007 at 7:31am
wabash10 wrote on Aug 7th, 2007 at 10:05pm:
| Have you seen cs2, is it worth it to get cs3? |
I used to have CS2. It is very good but CS3 is even better. If you want to get CS3, I think you can buy it as an upgrade for CS2, costing you much less. I now use CS3. ;)
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| where did you get your version? |
You mean photoshop? I got it at a computer store near mt house. You can find photoshop in nearly every store that deals with computer Hardware.
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| I still don't get how you could repaint from a picture with a wierd angle like that |
Well, it is kinda hard but after a while you get used to it. What I do it I save the picture into my computer, use photoshop to zoom in on what I want to see (Like the engines, I zoomed into them and saw that engine number 2 on the left didn't have blue on the top). The good thing about real liverys is that each side is almost Identicle to the other. For example, the left side of a Boeing 707, in this case, which is blue, would be the same as the right side.
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| how do you get the lines to line up on the tail to the back to the front? |
Well this is a bit differcult to line everything up right. Because, you'r not working on a already made plane, your just working on a puzzle that's yet to be made. That's why testing goes a long way in making repaints. Lets use the tail for expamle. In real life, one side of the tail is going to be the same as the other. So, you want to have the lines at the same angle, degree, leghnth and shape. This sound confusing, and you're proberbly wondering how can you do that? Well, first, start working on one side. Once it is done, you want the other part to do. What I do is I use the Polygonal Lasso Tool, zoom in on the tail and select it. This has to be done right and 100% accurate. What I then do, once it has been selected it I copy it, and paste it on the other side. I then rotate it, slowly put it over the other side and once its there I have to check everything. I first zoom out to see how it will look like from afar. Then, I zoom in very tight, and see if every pixel is covered up. If one of them is missing, I would paint over it instead of moving the pasted item.
Now, to get those white lines is very easy. First, I need a good picture of the tail. The picture you gave me here helped a LOT. Thanks for that. [smiley=dankk2.gif]
So, first I printed the picture, and then I wanted to see where everything was. The colour I used was...
R 19
G 47
B 129
Then, I selected the background layer and paited all of the tail blue. Then, I used the Polygonal Lasso Tool and slowly starting selecting over where the parts where going to be. See, I would move it slowly down (because I started from the top), and then change its degree angle down a bit, and continue until I was all the way there and back up again. You need to look at the picture a lot too. Once I had that, all I did was ues the Eraser Tool and get rid of the blue paint, returning it to white. Just Make sure that when yo do that you have the background layer selected, just so that it doesn't damage the details on the tail. And then do it for the other white line and thats it!
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| also the 727 doesn't have all of the files you described what do I need to do |
Don't worry. Those files I said are only for the Boeing 707. The 727 has its own set of files. ;)
Oh! I almost forgot, you also need to rename your files once finished to tell the computer which ones there for. Here is what you should rename them to (this is just for the 707):
707B
b707_a1_T.bmp
b707_a2_T.bmp
b707_3_T.bmp
b707_4_T.bmp
b707_a5_T.bmp
b707_a6_T.bmp
b707_7_T.bmp
707ADV
b707_b1_T.bmp
b707_b2_T.bmp
b707_3_T.bmp
b707_4_T.bmp
b707_b5_T.bmp
b707_b6_T.bmp
b707_7_T.bmp
707C
b707_e1_T.bmp
b707_e2_T.bmp
b707_3_T.bmp
b707_4_T.bmp
b707_e5_T.bmp
b707_e6_T.bmp
b707_e7_T.bmp
E-3A
b707_g1_T.bmp
b707_g2_T.bmp
b707_g3_T.bmp
b707_g4_T.bmp
b707_g5_T.bmp
b707_g6_T.bmp
b707_g7_T.bmp
VC-137C
b707_f1_T.bmp
b707_f2_T.bmp
b707_3_T.bmp
b707_4_T.bmp
b707_f5_T.bmp
b707_f6_T.bmp
b707_7_T.bmp
If you have any other questions just ask me. ;)