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Friends, im looking for a little advice please. Im trying my hand at repainting so i can hopefully help out with some repaints for the VA i belong to. Ive not repainted before and im not amazing with paint shop pro either but im enjoying the learning curve. The problem im having which may be related to both things im going to say, firstly, what layer and position do you do your own painting, text, tail detail etc? The reason im asking is because when i apply the shadow layer, it makes the colours ive applied for the rear of the aircraft a really funny colour. It turns the white area how it should look i think but completely mutes the blue and red down. ha…

Anybody steer me in the right direction? I want to repaint the top of the nose of an aircraft and the leading edges of the wings in a flat or non-reflective black. Much like WWII era bombers. Anyone know a technique to accomplish this. Web searches turn up scores of discussions of controlling blacks on printed materials, but can find none that relate to painting surfaces like on simulator aircraft.

Hello to all: I have painted (my very first one!) a new livery for the PMDG DC-6 in Lloyd Aereo Boliviano (LAB) colors. LAB's DC-6s, had an extra window at the very rear of the fuselage and I am trying to replicate that. I have copied (on a separate layer) one window from the "Window" layer of the original PMDG paint-kit, and placed it in its right location. It looks fantastic in Photoshop. However, when I start the sim (P3Dv4.1), the copied window is not transparent as all the original ones and remains a darker color. I am not versed in Photoshop (I spent a week watching and following you tube tutorials to manage this paint!), but I assume it has…

I've stumbled upon my first Redux Livery reorganizing my home server. I did that one back in 2013. To sum it up short: The Carenado - C208B Super Cargomaster will get some neat exterior and interior upgrades. That's what I did back in 2013 That's what I've changed already A lot more details still need to be added! ;)

Hi all. I'm trying to make a livery for GSX and it requires the use of Imagetool, the boxed version of FSX comes with it but FSX SE does not, so I'm stuck. I want a TNT logo doing in DXT5 format and saved as a DDS file in 32 bit color with alpha channel back ground in 512x128. Like the logo below but obviously in the required formats. Thanks.

As per the title, the Aerosoft AN2 paint kit is now available.

I created an basic skin for myself for the Airbus A321 using the set template with layers that was created and released. After I completed the left and right that I realised that the template was designed for an payware on fspilotshop and yes I tested it on another version of A321 and failed. I'm an newbie and I can not find any good models that comes with an easy template with layers! the template I used didn't need to be mirrored, so I create the skin and place it on! Soon enough I find an free version of A320 template with layers that was for "Project Airbus" :) I made it up and installed it using the DXTBmp and it had to be mirrored, however it failed and af…

registration on the nose wheel flaps on the fslabs 320 I can't find it anywhere thanks

how does one refresh a aircraft texture I have done a texture and the back of the aircraft as out of sync with the rest so I EDITED SAVED and then moved it to the texture file I deleted the old texture and uploaded the new one but flight sim is still loading old one like it's in the memory? anyone got any ideas?

Am currently trying to paint the FSLABS airbus but my fuselage master is done ive split it into 3 fuselage 01 t fuselage 02 t fuselage 03 t 1 and 2 are working but 3 is showing black any ideas also, what is the spec master for? thanks for any help

I am new to repainting in X-Plane, but have been repainting in the FS series for years. With many FS and P3d paints, you have a .SPEC file that allows you to apply specular effects. These are very common with many of the Carenado variants. Now, I am trying to do a paint in XP-11 that would, if I was in FS/P3d, use the .spec files for a specific highlight color. How are these effects handled in XP with the .PNG files?

I've been having problems accessing his repaint site, anyone else getting stuck in an redirect loop when visiting?

Hello I'm about to create a virtual airline! I of course needed some aircraft but I don't know how to create a custom texture. Any help world be kindly appreciated! Also I would need to know a program that I can use to create custom textures! Thanks! I do not need to create a MODEL I just need the steps to create a TEXTURE and how to put it in FSXSE to use.

Hi! Does anyone know where to find the Wilco/Feelthere Embraer 175 for fs2004 in KLM Cityhopper livery? The fleet is ever expanding and I can’t seem to find this repaint anywhere. regs PH-EXG to EXP atm. Would be very cool if someone is even willing to paint it, many thanks !

Hello, I'm new to painting and I'm finishing up my first ever repaint. The only item I have left is changing the the virtual cockpit registration number from N738PM to whatever (in this case HZ-ATR). No matter what I do, N738PM shows on the registration plate, not my desired tail number. Here are my steps: Open the VC registration number PSD and change the registration from N738PM to HZ-ATR using the text tool. I should probably mention that I do not have the default PMDG font so I resolve it with a similar font from the fonts library. Copy the entire registration plate using Ctrl C Click on the Alpha channel tab and hide RGB and show the Alpha …

Hi guys, I'm find 747-8i PMDG painkit, someone know download link?

I was making some textures for FSX. Whenever I save it as DXT1 or DXT5, it always has some mismatched colours. It shows up fine in Gimp normally but changes colour after saving if I choose 24-bit R8G8B8 format. If I use the 32-bit A8 fomat, it turns up with a blue tint all over. If I use 32-bit X8 format, a yellow tint is applied when I import the image back to DXTBmp from Gimp. I will post screenshots below too. I am completely new to this so sorry if my questions are too easy to answer. Here are the pictures for the texture issue: What I made: What I got after saving: I am using DXTBmp and have made textures for other aircraft using this. An…

Hello, I have made custom cabin textures for the NGX, thye show up fine in daylight with the cabin lights at 0% but at night or with the cabin lights on they revert back to the old cabin textures even though I have both cabin and cabin night textures included and have double checked the name and alpha layers of each. I'm using the -700 version. Any Help? Thanks Weston

Painting for the first time , and i cant seem to get rid of these weird looking lines on the radome and where the different textures have connected together. Any clue or advice how to go around this? Thanking you in advance

Hey everyone .. I'm trying to make some cargo planes from PMDG 737's for P3D v4 but i just cant seem to remove the window seat ports, i just need someone to point me in the right direction.. thx

Hello, I'm painting a livery that has multiple long curving stripes that start at the nose of the aircraft and extend to the APU exhaust. That's easy enough to paint however I'm having difficulty lining up the stripes from the end of the fuselage 1 boundary to the beginning of the fuselage 2 boundary and the again between the fuselage 2 and 3 boundaries. Can anyone provide any techniques to ensure everything lines up appropriately? How do I paint around the boundary gaps? Thanks, James

Hi there! I'm starting a new Fictional virtual airline and we need some help making some repaints for some of our aircraft! If you could help that would be great! Theres a lot of details so if your interested me, you can email hr at lifepointairlines dot org

Hi all, I am attempting my first repaint and have come across an issue. I did a small amount of work on a repaint of a brand new local airline, flywaves.gg, who operate C208B's. http://www.islandfm.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/2-Crew-Guernsey-side-1024x418.jpg The repaint is simple and is easily done in photoshop however the aircraft turned out like this after editing premade files from another repaint. https://gyazo.com/54d5597c1f5a1fd0ba256a27bcf39e50 I'd appreciate any help with this, once again, I'm new to repaints! Many thanks!

dear friends: where i can download 1000 lineage (ejets) paint for fsx.. thanks..