Thinking of taking up Aircraft Repainting? Simviation now has a download section that is specifically dedicated to this hobby!
Here you will find all the FS2004 default aircraft, from the Cessna to the 747!
Rob Smith has generously made available repaint kits for all the FS2004 default aircrafts.
You are free to use these textures to create your own repaints but please give the author credit for his hard work. You are not allowed to use these textures for payware aircraft or add ons. The kit does not include any other files except the textures for each aircraft.
Also in this section are downloads that contain paint kits for many other different types of aircrafts!

From the beginner to the professional, this section is worth taking a look at! Let's see what type of repaint you can do!

There are a few tutorials on how to "Repaint" an aircraft available for you to use.
Try "Grump's Lair" hosted by Simviation at:
http://www.simviation.com/lair/index.htm

Or the link in "The Lair" to Garry Smith's tutorial at:
http://www.gjsmith.net/Tutorial/full_tutorial.htm

There is some real helpful information here on getting your painting career off the ground!
Good Luck and Happy Flying!!

Dave

Cool.................

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didnt say it would be   

This is Rob the designer of most of the default repaint kits for fs9. I am currently working on the missing aircraft i think their are five that i have to do. if anyone has an aircraft they would like done send me a detailed e-mail. i would love to do both repaint kits and repaints I will post mt CF-18 when it is done so look for that too.

Forget it.. I found it (she was right lol)

Hey Batman,

Give Pixia a try... About the only freeware out there.

http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/

Regards,
Stratobat

There are lots of free painting packages that come with cover cd's on computer mags from time, there is often one included with one magazine each month.
They are older versions but more tha adequate for starting out painting and may well be all you ever require.

Thanks Stratobat  that worked 

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It's not a bad program, it doesn't have as many features as Photoshop and PSP, but it'll get the job done

Regards,
Stratobat

I'd recommend PhotoFiltre from http://www.photofiltre.com - for photo editing it's second to none (if none is Photoshop) and it's also very good for repainting due to the different fill mechanism (you'll see when you try) which speeds things up, and the filters/colour options.

It also smooths images when you resize and antialises (and bevels and shadows if you so wish) text, which makes it good for screenies too.

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Hi guys, just a quick heads up, I've started putting my own 'home-made' repaint kits onto my website.

Theres are layered kits compatible with PSP or Photoshop. Bitmaps available on request for people without PSP or P.S. I'll be adding to the list over time, but for now theres 20 or so available.

http://www.repaints.here.ws
on the Downloads page.

If theres an aircraft you want a kit making for thats not there, or there is no official kit available, then feel free to ask, and i'll see what I can make.

i figured it out and i got DXTBmp but i dont get it. i open it on dxtbmp and it looks like an aircraft but wen i open it in psp its a white screen with a bit of black is there anyway i can show it in this forum?

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Gimp

Ahh this is cool.

hi guys, would like to repaint a 737 - 800 for FSX. Will the FS 2004 one do or is there an FSX one i can download? Im very new to this.

UPDATE:
Ive downloaded and unzipped an FSX cessna 172 and i am u sing pixia now as well. But when i try to open the c172 black textures pixia says it has encountered a problem and has to close. The Files i am trying to load are in BMP format but pixia wont load them. Any ideas?

Thanks

Pixia is pretty good but i have no idea how to do all those things.