Hi, hope someone can help.I'm trying to do an Allegiant airlines repaint for Flight 1's new Super Awesome MD-80. hehe and Allegiant as you may or may not know has this weird little sun graphic above the "i" in Allegiant and so I'm trying to basically cut and paste that graphic from an airliners.net photo to my new paint. At this point I've pretty much finished painting the airplane except for that graphic above the "i" and the one on the tail. Here's what I did, I used the crop tool (Photoshop) and then cropped the graphic, then I saved it as a new layer, now I'm trying to put it on my template or my "main layer" Is this possible? Isn't that how photoreal paints are created? Or should I be hand drawing this? Someone please help me, I'm so excited to be doing my first repaint, I can't wait to figure out how to get those graphics in place. Here's a link from airliners.net:http://www.airliners.net/open.file/729465/L/Thanks,Jeff

You are correct, that is 100% possible. Not sure exactly what you need help with though, could you go into more detail about the bit you're having trouble with?

Hi,First off, thank you for your response.Second, the issue I'm having is I'm trying to take one layer and place it on another layer. Basically, my cut Allegiant "sun" graphic from a photo and I need to paste it on to my repaint template. I can't figure it out, do you know how to do that?Thanks,Jeff

I suggest you save your 'cropped' image as a new Photoshop psd file. Have that file and your repaint template open at the same time. Create a new layer in the latter then select, cut-and-paste the cropped image. You can then move and scale the cropped image on the new layer as necessary. Always keep the psd file and when you finally flatten the image save that under a different name.

What he said :)Make sure the graphic layer is selected and you can draw a box around it using the marquee tool, you can then go to Edit - Copy. Paste it onto your paint kit..

Got it! Thanks all.Jeff