[F22-Raptor-2006]

Try to use GIMP for skinning, works fine at me.

That probably won't make a difference because of the specific problem your having. What you need to do is download something called Bright (http://www.mediafire.com/?81g4yzdxx3j). What it does is converts the 3mb BMP files (can't remember how many bits this is) into a 1mb file which IL2 can read without changing any of the colours. Put your skin in the Bright folder then click the batch file not the exe file. Once done remove your skin from that folder otherwise it will slow the batch process down the next time you do another skin.

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Ok ill try this then. I might have to start the skin again or something maybe...Hope not. Thank you.

you won't have to start the skin again.

Doing the "Bright" process to make your skin work for IL2 is basically like putting a picture into a frame if you want to think of it like that. Without the frame you can't hang it on the wall and without putting your skin into Bright it won't work in IL2.