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Skin Creation - kaban_ger - 01.02.2010

Hi folks

I want to learn to make new skins.

I already tried to do some with gimp but I don

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- Lefty Hartnett - 01.02.2010

Others will no doubt point you to tutorials.

Here is my advice.

Find a really well organized template.

HH_Blaze has some great ones out there. US Grant, Casey, and others.

The logic of how the template is organized will be very instructive.

Pick one plane that has a great template and just keep working on skins until you get it.

And, yeah, check out some tutorials.

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- Oh_Frustration - 01.02.2010

http://www.youtube.com/user/310thVagab0nd This.

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- agracier - 01.02.2010

GIMP is not really the best program to use for skin making. Photo Shop or Paint Shop Pro are generally more versatile and easier to use. Besides, i think GIMP has a problem with reducing to the correct type of 256 color bmp file.

And I would indeed suggest you work with a few of the more simple templates, templates with not too many layers. I believe that Imme made some very good ones that were as intuitive as could be and still had everything necessary to make a great skin.

You can download templates at Mission4Today and Simmerspaintshop ...

http://mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads2&c=61
http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/forums/ ... -series-5/

And here are some sets of markings and roundels for download. You can never have too many of these in your archives:
http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/forums/ ... ate&page=2

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- Bearkiller72 - 01.02.2010

Yep. I'd also advise you to check out simmerspaintshop.com. Navigate to their Il-2 section and check out their skinning tutorials.
They'll also teach you how to make your own templates out of "void"-skins. If you're really interested in skinning, this is the
place to look for help. You'll also find some useful tools like the famed "bright", which reduces your 24-bit skins down to 8-bitters,
with excellent results. BTW, if you want to go 'legal' (of course you will...), you might wanna use Corel's "Photo-Paint" (included in the
'Corel Graphics Suite') or "PaintShop Pro", both good alternatives to the almighty, yet high priced PhotoShop.

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- kaban_ger - 02.02.2010

Thank you very much the links are very helpful.

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