Simviation Forum - PSP7 Tutorials

Aug 12^th, 2003 at 12:52am

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Does anyone know a good tutorial that I can go through (I want one that is really really really slow) so that I can learn how to use the tools of PSP7. I'm not so concerned about a repainting tutorial because that probably won't do me much good until I have some experience with the program itself. So, if you can help I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

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Reply #1 - Aug 12^th, 2003 at 10:07am

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Google it. There are tons.

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Reply #2 - Aug 12^th, 2003 at 12:30pm

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Richie, I'll be honest if you've got the bread move up to PSP8.
I've just upgraded, and I really couldn't get on well with 7 after a year of using it. My repaint attempts were awful.
I've started with 8 in the last week and I'm stunned how easy and flexible it is. I'll probably be releasing some Spitfire repaints when I feel they're good enough.

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Reply #3 - Aug 12^th, 2003 at 1:12pm

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I'm sticking with both PSP7 and 8 for the moment.

Abacus' forthcoming FS Repainter, and VAS-Gold cannot handle PSP8, so my alternate paint program (alternate to the built in editor) is PSP7.

There's nothing better than to simply PLAY with the program - that's how I've managed to do anything in it - and I've only scratched the surface of the possibilities.

PSP8's additional warp tools - mesh warp, straightening tools, etc., are excellent.

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Reply #4 - Aug 12^th, 2003 at 6:30pm

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Well, I decided to go out and get PSP8, so now I'm playing with that but I have a question. OK, I am going through a repainting tutorial and I'm doing OK so far except I'm trying to create a rectange that's style is outline-that way it's hollow....right. Anyway, I'm trying to make a wide stripe on the side of the plane without covering the detail of the lines and door of the aircraft. So, how do I make a stripe like that (I assume using the rectangle tool) that is filled with a color but that doesn't cover up the planes detail-is there a way of making the color transparent so you can see the detail under it. If so, can someone walk me through it. Thanks.

If it helps, I'm doing the tutorial by Gary Smith that is a complete walk through to repainting the FS2002 B737. I figured that there probably isn't a big difference in repainting for 2002 and 2004 and since the turtorial is really detailed it is a good place to start. Wink

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Reply #5 - Aug 13^th, 2003 at 8:52am

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I've never used the rectangle tool for my stripes, but then again, I'm a lazy bastid....I usually just make the paintbrush tool the size I want, switch it to a square tip, set hardness at 100, and I'm good to go.

Little shortcut for you...if you start say, on the right end of the image, click once. Make sure you note where your tip is. (Look at the bottom to get the x,y coordinates.)

Then go to the left side, or wherever you want the other end of the stripe. Move the cursor to the same vertical coordinates (I think it's the y)...press shift, then click. It will do a sort of "Connect the dots" thing that is much quicker.

Good luck!

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Reply #6 - Aug 13^th, 2003 at 9:46am

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Selection tools are your friends - almost as important as working in layers.

Once you have your rectangle, switch to another selection tool (either magic wand, point to point, smart edge, etc) and in PSP8 choose to (remove?) selection. This way, as you make your selection, you're actually cutting out from your rectagular selection.

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Reply #7 - Aug 13^th, 2003 at 1:25pm

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Felix, I'm still not quite understanding. I'm trying to follow exactly what this tutorial says (because I'm not very familuar with layers yet) but I'm struggling-maybe you could read the part of th tutorial I'm having a hard time with and show me how to do it in PSP8, since it was written for PSP5

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Tool to be used: Shapes

Now the yellow line – this will be a bit different as it is a thick line and we do not want to eliminate details such as doors. So this time we will use the Shapes Tool to draw a hollow box along the fuselage. Select Shapes Tool and check the Tools Control box – set Shape to Rectangle, set Style to Outline and Select Outline Width to 1 (one)

Click on the top square for our colour and the colour palette will come up – select Orange on the Ring of colour – then select a strong orange colour in the square inside the ring. Click OK

Now zoom in on the nose of the aircraft so that you can start the rectangle where the top of the black line joins the nose cone – click and hold the mouse button and pull slowly to the right – the image should scroll with you – when you get to the end push up by twenty pixels – see bottom left numbers (3rd set) for assistance here.

Thw worst part is he basically spells the whole process out and I still can't get it, are the tools just a little different in PSP8-I think my main problem is when it says "set to outline," I don't kow how to do that. Anyway, any help you guys could give me would be very apprecated. Thanks.

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Reply #8 - Aug 13^th, 2003 at 2:14pm

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Richie--

I'm hardly an expert (see some of my other frustrations in this forum lol) but one thing that helped me was when I realized that a "layer" was really nothing more than a digital piece of tracing paper.

Once I started looking at it like that, the "layers" made much more sense to me, and it seemed very easy.

Best of luck!

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Reply #9 - Aug 13^th, 2003 at 5:49pm

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OK, I figured out what I was doing. I didn't set the fill color to transparent, lol.

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Reply #10 - Aug 13^th, 2003 at 6:49pm

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<THWACK> (insert the sound of getting hit with a wet polygon...)

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OK, I figured out what I was doing. I didn't set the fill color to transparent, lol.

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Reply #11 - Aug 22^nd, 2003 at 2:48pm

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I use the colour replacer for most of my painting in PSP7. It will leave the lines the same colour while you paint your stripes. eg: If the plane is white, it will probably have grey lines. If i'm painting a red stripe over them, the colour replacer will replace white with red, not grey with red. I then replace the grey part in the stripe with a much darker red to look like a join in the skin that has paint in the seam.

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