Tutorial for painting a Car in PSP

Hello Guys

I'm planing to paint my cars for gp3 in the future in Paint Shop Pro. I painted my cars with paint and put then with a template which had shadows and that stuff in PSP over it... the car looks good, but lines and roundness stuff looks not so smooth... so that's why I now want switch into PSP to paint there the Cars... can somebody of the good Carmakers like Camilo or Hector help me and other interested people here?

cheers
Rotty

There is a car template for PSP by Bojan Tarticchio, Florian.

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drafi5 Wrote:
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> There is a car template for PSP by Bojan
> Tarticchio, Florian.

I have that template, but I need help for creating smooth lines and corners on a Car... the lines and corners which I can make with MS Paint aren't so good

Ok, I pait my cars in Adobe Photoshop and there is such tool as polygonal Lasso. You must mark an area you want to paint (for example, line) and then use brush. Much pionts you made by polygoman lasso - much smoother will be your line.

@Maximka... thanks alot... will try it out

OK... have try it and I must say, it's not so easy but now the lines and that stuff looks better

An advanced tip that works when using PSP software to get that extra level of detail....to begin with, increase the size of the texture by 500% with the "pixel resize" method so that it doesnt blur the edges (1). Then paint in your texture as you normally would (2), lol, you've got lots more space to go into smaller details. Once you've finished the car then SAVE A SPARE COPY! Then merge all the layers together and resize it back down by 20% (so that it returns to its original size) but make sure you use a "smart size" technique (3). This file is now your finished texture, make sure you save it seperately to the copy you made earlier...otherwise you wont be able to go back and edit it if you want to make any changes. This is the manual way of creating something called "anti-aliasing" and it makes your textures look a hell of a lot smoother .


(1) Making the original bigger


(2) Doing your thing


(3) Resizing it back down again

Btw, it doesnt have to be 500% and 20% resizing. You could make it 200% and 50% or even 1000% and 10%....but as a general rule of thumb, the higher the scale is then the more smooth your textures will appear . Hope this helps!

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/21/2007 12:15AM by Fincent.

Hello Fincent! Could you send me this helmet template? CYA.

Check your PMs FernandoVG

@ DJRotty: Hoped my explanation was of some use to you. I know its a helmet but it gives you the general idea really the same logic can be applied to any texture really.

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Circuit Thermalito

Liverpool Waterfront Circuit (WIP)

@Fincent: Yeah, I hope, it can help me

is there a layered cockpit template anywhere??

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Excuse me to use this old thread, has someone an EASY tutorial for
carpainting ? It should be for beginners and dummies like me (English
or German), thanks in advance.
I have the templates by TheSmokingPen and Bojan Tarticchio.


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maybe this helps you Helmut

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Thank you very much, Jürgen, I will give it a go.


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Hi, people. Soon, I'll post a tutorial explaining how I paint my own cars...


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