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  1. You can get Photoshop CS2 for free these days, GIMP also does a reasonable job
  2. It's clearly not a glitch as the areas are textured and therefore are able to be bare metal'd. I'm not that familiar with the type but it certainly seems to be intentional, see the following: http://airspotters.com/ekmps/shops/airspotters/images/aeroclassics-western-bare-metal-boeing-727-200-n2823w-scale-1-400-acn2823w-12929-p.gif http://img.planespotters.net/photo/263000/original/N873AA-American-Airlines-Boeing-727-200_PlanespottersNet_263179.jpg http://www.diecastaircraftforum.com/attachments/forum31/77416d1342579557-dsc09457.jpg http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6193/6065343815_ddf9369b61_b.jpg Presumably those areas are not aluminium, haven't seen any photos with the particular area as shown in the repaint thought! Edit: Even photos of this specific aircraft show areas where they are not aluminium but they don't relate to the areas in the repaint! http://www.airliners.net/photo/Western-Airlines/Boeing-727-247/0084922/&sid=7edf0af675d880a2b1f76ef8ef372949 So either it's depicted at a different stage in it's life where these areas were like that, it's lack of research or something to do with the paintkit makes it impossible to do (which I'm pretty sure is not the case).
  3. Hi Joe, only thing I can see that is different is the file format? Have to tried saving it as 32bit? Not that it will probably affect it, but make sure mip mapping is off/on as per the original file. Only other thing I can thing of is the alpha channel...!
  4. I'm using CS3 but I'm assuming it hasn't changed much. From the sounds of it you want to copy/duplicate layers on to another psd/bmp right? To do this you should be able to click one layer (as in highlight) and hold Crtl and click the other to select both. Then you can either right click one of them and 'Duplicate Layers...', ensure the other document is open and select the other document from the drop down and hit OK. Alternatively ensure both layers are highlighted, have both of the documents up side by side and drag the layers to the other document by either using the Move Tool or using the Layers window. You could also put the layers in to a Group or folder and duplicate or drag the Group over. I'd have a look at the paint kit but the justflight website doesn't seem to be working at the moment, if you're still having a problem can you post an image of the paint kit and the Layers window?
  5. airliners.net/photo/Continental-Airlines/Boeing-757-224/1168343/L/ airliners.net/photo/Continental-Airlines/Boeing-757-224/1653262/L/ Should be big enough...? Apologies for the lack of hyperlink, aparently avsim doesn't allow linking to it...
  6. Why not just sample the above graphic and make it in to a vector? You can then scale it to whatever size you need!
  7. Not having seen the paint kit it looked like it could have been the untextured block colour underneath the texture map. Didn't know there was a massive strip of luminous green in the paint kit!
  8. Your problem looks like a classic case of mipmaps, try not including them and see the result... not having mipmaps will decrease performance though! :Big Grin:
  9. 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! :(
  10. 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. :(
  11. Sounds like you need the Pen Tool (shortcut 'P'), trace the curve and create a path or vector shape out of it.This YouTube video looks pretty good: The Pen Tool is one of the most useful tools in Photoshop, takes a while to get to grips with but pays off in the end!Feel free to shoot with any problems you have :(
  12. :( Ok, I've just had a look at the paint kit and I think I've solved it...On the "C" bmp, in middle at the bottom is the section of fuselage they've mapped to allow you to have the reg without it being mirrored. If you have a look at the alpha channel (one of the channels if you're using photoshop/paint shop pro) its actually a slightly different shade of grey. Don't ask why they did that.. but thats likely to be causing your problem.You'll need to edit the section on the "C" bmp alpha channel to make it the same shade of grey as the "A" fuselage alpha channel.. and that should hopefully do it. :( Feel free to shout if you need any help.
  13. Unfortunately not. The areas placed on to the model are hard coded so would only be changable by the person who created the original model.The best you could do is make the tail area only cover the tail, the FSRepaint editor appears to be lacking in some tools that you would find useful. Generally Photoshop is considered the best for repainting but it is pricey. A free alternative would be something like GIMP,never tried it myself but I hear good things about it.
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