X-Plane Photo Paint Tutorial
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by Josh Gales
The right side of the fuselage is now done. I made a copy of the layer and moved
it down to the left side:
Make sure everything lines up:
Now, going back to my original photo, I selected the tail with the polygonal
lasso tool and copied the selection (command-c)
Switching back to the paint file, I pasted it on (command-v) Before stretching
it to size, I had to flip it horizontally to have it face the right way. After
stretching it to the correct dimensions, I selected the front of the base and
copied and pasted that selection. Then I stretched it to size. This part takes
some guessing and checking. It took me a few tries to get the size right. Next,
I did the same thing for the entire base of the tail. After that, I copied all
three layers and dragged them to the corresponding spots for the left side.
Results:
Then, using the rectangular marquee tool on the base (original) layer I selected
the engines. Using the eyedopper tool, I got the blue from the tail. I then used
the brush tool with the mode set to multiply to paint the engines blue: