repainting tutorials for complete beginners

What would you guys recommend as a repainting tutorial for someone who's never repainted anything before, i know my way around PSP7 and have done some basic stuff, copying and pasting basically but im in the dark about anything more advanced,
interested to hear your recommendation's, ian

I'm pretty sure I've seen a tutorial here by Nigel Richards. Think it was in the FS2004 forums but in reality.. much of that would apply for FSX. Specs and bumps can be a black art and I wouldn't expect anyone who's not painted before to even attempt messing with those.

ATB
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These are the best tutorials I've seen to date. I personally used them and keep going back to reference them. The guy is a Photoshop guru...but you can apply what he does in any painting app. They are lengthy but well worth it.

https://youtu.be/ztyJlKDbdwA

Tutorials? Just experiment with the possibilities a program gives

Cheers

Thank you Rick, much appreciated!

Thanks guys, one i do remember was by Michael Davis, one time contributor to Alphasim, a long, long, long time ago, back in my CFS2 days, it seemd to make sense at the time but i lost it years back, but i'll have a look at your recommendation's.

cheers ian

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Tutorials? Just experiment with the possibilities a program gives

Cheers

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Yes, that's how you truly learn how to do it. But if you want a head start, here is Michael's tutorial resaved in pdf format.

Attachment 42317

Hope this helps.
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These are the best tutorials I've seen to date. I personally used them and keep going back to reference them. The guy is a Photoshop guru...but you can apply what he does in any painting app. They are lengthy but well worth it.

https://youtu.be/ztyJlKDbdwA

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Yep! I watched every one of those videos and cant express how much they helped me awhile back.

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What would you guys recommend as a repainting tutorial for someone who's never repainted anything before, i know my way around PSP7 and have done some basic stuff, copying and pasting basically but im in the dark about anything more advanced,
interested to hear your recommendation's, ian

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I started messing around with textures a little while ago. I look at the tutorials when I am trying to overcome points where I get stumped.

Something that I had ben wanting to do for a while was change the Milviz F-4E pilots visor to look like the one my dad flew with.
I found the helmet texture and started experimenting on how to change the color on the visor.
Then I took some pictures of the visor (he has it hanging on his "love me" wall) and did a cut and paste of the artwork onto it.
Finally, I had to do some touch up and blending to make it look tidy.

Since I barely know how to do anything with Photoshop, it took me 4 hours, but I'm pretty happy with the result:

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...psj1q1hbrb.jpg

I think if I were to do it all over again, I could do it all in an hour.

My ultimate goal is to do a repaint of an F-4E that he actually flew..... but I need to do a lot more research for that.

Hi Frank, thanks for putting up the link but i just keep getting a "Invalid Attachment specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator"

cheers ian

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Hi Frank, thanks for putting up the link but i just keep getting a "Invalid Attachment specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator"

cheers ian

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OK, well I blame it on the forum software for indicating it was all good.

Here is a copy: http://www.mirage4fs.com/Alphasim/PSP_Tutorial.zip

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Thanks :wavey:

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Tutorials? Just experiment with the possibilities a program gives

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That's much easier said than done, especially from the standpoint of someone just beginning. There are areas of the process of repainting that require specific instructions to even grasp the concept (speculars, bump mapping, etc) and would never be something a beginner would simply fall into when "experimenting with the possibilities a program gives them". Now once those are mastered, then yes I would say the rest is experimentation, but tutorials for those portions of repainting that require specific steps to master are a necessity and are not steps that a novice painter would simply stumble upon in the process.

Hi Ian,
Here's very basic tutorial. I modified one that I found that was designed for PSP and modified it to use Paint.net. It will work with either program. I acknowledge the source within the program and you my wish to refer to it.

https://app.box.com/s/3y94cvrtwqmgg11fi7pj

Jim F.

Thanks for all the great tips!

Here are some of the old "Simmers Paint Shop" tutorials and other stuff in the categories section that are around for awhile.
You should be able to apply the techniques in other programs.

http://www.logtnest.nl/the-heritage-...rs-paint-shop/

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