Hello!I am currently working on a Thomas Cook livery which I have done already once. But everytime I have worked on the tail I used photographs to create the tail and ironed a few things out and pasted a higher quality Thomas Cook logo. This time I want to use 'raw' material this time, namely creating those fading light and dark dots on the lower and upper side of the tail fin myself. Unfortunately I haven't found an effective and good way doing so with Photoshop CS3. I had the brush tool and paths on my mind to create one half of the dots (i.e. the dark ones) than mirrow it in order to create the light ones or so. I can't figure out an easy solution for the decreasing size of the dots!?Maybe someone in this forum has good idea to create the Thomas Cook tail fully on my own?One picture as reference:www.airliners.net/photo/Thomas-Cook-Airlines/Airbus-A320-231/0590677/L/Thanks in advance!Best regards,Christian

Hello!I am currently working on a Thomas Cook livery which I have done already once. But everytime I have worked on the tail I used photographs to create the tail and ironed a few things out and pasted a higher quality Thomas Cook logo. This time I want to use 'raw' material this time, namely creating those fading light and dark dots on the lower and upper side of the tail fin myself. Unfortunately I haven't found an effective and good way doing so with Photoshop CS3. I had the brush tool and paths on my mind to create one half of the dots (i.e. the dark ones) than mirrow it in order to create the light ones or so. I can't figure out an easy solution for the decreasing size of the dots!?Maybe someone in this forum has good idea to create the Thomas Cook tail fully on my own?One picture as reference:www.airliners.net/photo/Thomas-Cook-Airlines/Airbus-A320-231/0590677/L/Thanks in advance!Best regards,Christian

What you're after is 'halftone'.Photoshop has some inbuilt halftone filters but are unlikely to give what you want straight off. Have a look at this tutorial: here. The gradient at the bottom of the page is similar to the effect you're after.Alternatively you could have a go at some pre-made halftone Photoshop brushes here. :(

What you're after is 'halftone'.Photoshop has some inbuilt halftone filters but are unlikely to give what you want straight off. Have a look at this tutorial: here. The gradient at the bottom of the page is similar to the effect you're after.Alternatively you could have a go at some pre-made halftone Photoshop brushes here. :(

Hi Morgan,just had a quick look at it and it looks quite interesting I'll give it a try as soon as I have some spare time. That's already the second time you are helping me out, the first time was with the circles from the Lufthansa Regional Logo ::( .Thank you very much! :( By the way, I have got your tutorial bookmarked and its my brooch(?) whenever I do a repaint, I have even developed a few own techniques that way . I seriously owe you a drink!! :(Best regards,Christian

Hi Morgan,just had a quick look at it and it looks quite interesting I'll give it a try as soon as I have some spare time. That's already the second time you are helping me out, the first time was with the circles from the Lufthansa Regional Logo ::( .Thank you very much! :( By the way, I have got your tutorial bookmarked and its my brooch(?) whenever I do a repaint, I have even developed a few own techniques that way . I seriously owe you a drink!! :(Best regards,Christian

Hehe! Vaguely remember it, must have been a fair while ago!Glad to hear you found my tutorial useful and that you've developed your own techniques from it, that was its main intention so pleased to hear its doing its job! :(

Hehe! Vaguely remember it, must have been a fair while ago!Glad to hear you found my tutorial useful and that you've developed your own techniques from it, that was its main intention so pleased to hear its doing its job! :(

Indeed that was some time ago. And the tutorial is simply great and worth reading for every beginner or person who wants to get a bit more out of a repaint :(.ChristianP.S.: Managed to do the Thomas Cook tail fully on my own now and it looks splendid!