How to open bmp texture files?

[Flying Tiger 3]

Hi repainters,

yesterday I took the benefit of the discount sales with Carenado to buy 5 extra aircrafts. I always make a repaint of an existing livery. Changing colors, adding decals, add my own registration  etc. I use Photoshop CC (always the latest version) . With most aircraft textures there are dds-files to be found in the texture files. Not with 4 out of 5 this time. Only the Cessna 337 Skymaster HD has those files included. The 4 others have al bmp files in the existing liveries. I can't open these to work with them. Not in PS, paint, photos, Paint 3D. 

Can somebody give some advice on how to open these files so I can edit the liveries to my liking. 

Other aircrafts purchased:    C90 King Air,     C185F bush,float, amphibian,     C208B Grand Caravan,     Piper PA28 Archer II

Hoping for a possitive reply, in the meantime

kind regards, 

Eddy Vandenberghe, Holland

[Bert Pieke 7,584]

Find a free copy of Image Tool.exe..

You may have it in your SDK files.

These bmps are compressed, and Image Tool can open them, and later be used to compress again.

[HighBypass 2,339]

There is also DXTBmp which is free. 

[Flying Tiger 3]

Hello Bert / Mark,

once again I didn't get a notification that there where replies on my post. So a postpopned reply from me once again, sorry. I see what I can do with your information and will inform you if I succeeded.

Thanks again for the help.

Bert: bedankt voor de info vanuit een ondergesneeuwd Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. 15 Cm wat uitzonderlijk is voor hier, maar in Canada zullen ze wel meer gewend zijn denk ik  ! :-)

 

greetz, 

Eddy

[Jim Young 2,356]

1 hour ago, Flying Tiger said:

once again I didn't get a notification that there where replies on my post. So a postpopned reply from me once again, sorry.

You should have seen a notification when you clicked on the Notification Bell in the upper right corner.  You do not have it set up to have a notification to your e-mail address for new content.  Just under the bell notification area above only.  If you have your sound turned on, it should make a noise indicating a new notification when you first logon or while visiting AVSIM.

Best regards,

Jim

[Flying Tiger 3]

Hello Jim, (was it for you that Canadian singer Paul Anka wrote the song "Hello Jim" ? I guess not  )

 

thanks for the info. I saw the notification under the bell, but in the settings I assumed that the possibility to "One email per day with all new content from that day" was an email containing ALL new posts/replies of that day, and that is why I didn't choose this option. Maybe it is, I will see because, I did change my preferences in the settings now.

Thanks again,

regards, 

Eddy

 

[Flying Tiger 3]

Hi Mark,

a bit of a postponed reply (holidays you know- by the way all the best for 2018 to all who read this reply!) but I found the free DXTBmp package and it works very well. Problem solved ! Thanks.

Reagrds, 

Eddy

[HighBypass 2,339]

Excellent - All the best to you too in 2018