Painting Cars in N 2003- Getting Started

Hi all, I've decided I would like to begin painting my own car schemes and I really have no idea how to do it. I have very little experience with graphics or painting programs and I would like a guide or tutorial on how to get started. Does anyone know of a good tutorial and/or website on how to go about it. I dl'd the trial version of PaintShop Pro 8.0 with the 2 resource packs. Any help would be appreciated. Also, do these programs typically apply to other sims such as GPL and F1C and their associated mods? TIA, Timmy

Our web site, www.torn8oalley.com, gets asked this question quite a bit. My advice to those questions, and yours, is to seek out tutorials from PSP on how to use this program. It really is a great program paint your skins. Once you get the hang of cutting, pasting and placing decals, images etc on your car template, the rest falls into line quite easily. Also, learn to "cut and paste as transparent". This feature alone will make your life much easier when it comes creating your car.] One last thing, check out our Forum and go to our Paint section. Feel free to ask questions there. I know quite a few of our guys will gladly give some tips to you there. TMan "Timmy Ferrell" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<tgfLb.50$[email hidden]>...

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> Hi all, > I've decided I would like to begin painting my own car schemes and I > really have no idea how to do it. I have very little experience with > graphics or painting programs and I would like a guide or tutorial on how to > get started. Does anyone know of a good tutorial and/or website on how to > go about it. > I dl'd the trial version of PaintShop Pro 8.0 with the 2 resource packs. > Any help would be appreciated. > Also, do these programs typically apply to other sims such as GPL and > F1C and their associated mods? > TIA, > Timmy

Every now and then TheScreenSavers on TechTV have this Photoshop expert come by and show some sort of process in Photoshop. By the time I even understand what the guy wants to do, he's already created and duplicated 50 freakin' layers and has basically shit a masterpiece. -Larry "T-Man" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Our web site, www.torn8oalley.com, gets asked this question quite a > bit. > > My advice to those questions, and yours, is to seek out tutorials from > PSP on how to use this program. It really is a great program paint > your skins. > > Once you get the hang of cutting, pasting and placing decals, images > etc on your car template, the rest falls into line quite easily. > > Also, learn to "cut and paste as transparent". This feature alone will > make your life much easier when it comes creating your car.] > > One last thing, check out our Forum and go to our Paint section. Feel > free to ask questions there. I know quite a few of our guys will > gladly give some tips to you there. > > TMan > > > "Timmy Ferrell" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

news:<tgfLb.50$[email hidden]>... > > Hi all, > > I've decided I would like to begin painting my own car schemes and I > > really have no idea how to do it. I have very little experience with > > graphics or painting programs and I would like a guide or tutorial onhow to > > get started. Does anyone know of a good tutorial and/or website on howto > > go about it. > > I dl'd the trial version of PaintShop Pro 8.0 with the 2 resourcepacks. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Also, do these programs typically apply to other sims such as GPLand > > F1C and their associated mods? > > TIA, > > Timmy