I'm no expert, but my guess is that the original textures were made on a template much larger, then scaled down. If it's the same with all aircraft you repaint, then try saving in a different format before exporting it to a .dds

I apologize for the delay   

C130L,

You are correct, I do use larger pic's and then shrink them down before I cut and trim them out. Some of the pic's I use are not to big to start with but they come out very blurry anyway.
 

Ricardo,

Yes I saw your work (Beautiful!) That's how I wish mine would come out, 'Crisp and Clean'. Now your going to laugh! I've been using Microsoft MS paint. Ouch! that hurts to admit! Thats the program I use for cutting and croping 'all' logos for my repaints. As far as the large painting jobs, I use 'Photo-Impression' & 'MS-Paint'

I have MS Picture-It but I don't qite know how to use it yet. I'm learning though.

How do you guys get that nice cut between two colors? Mine looks like s**t! Its a mess where the two colors meet.

Anything you can tell me on any tips and tricks you've learned in your work would be very appreciated.

                                                     Thank you gentlemen

Garry,

I thank you for that bit of info. I read about that (MIPS) thing in the readme files, but damn if I know what the heck they are.

I was in that DXT.bmp program lastnight and noticed the mips box 'was' checked.

                                       Thanks again Garry

Glad you're sorted.

It's one of those simple things that makes such a big difference.

We've all been there

Best wishes

Garry