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Title: Car Skinning Software Post by: rip|ChITty on October 04, 2009, 11:23:56 AM I've been playing around with making a new car skin for the last couple of days with GIMP and I have to say it's pretty user friendly. My previous attempts at poking around at a skin was using Photoshop 6.0 (old, yes I know) which didn't have support for the layers, so it was editing the flat dds file which wasn't very fun. But, even at a simple user interface level I've found GIMP more enjoyable to use. Oh, and it's free.
Title: Re: Car Skinning Software Post by: rip|buzinator on October 04, 2009, 12:53:40 PM I guess it's go with what works for you, but it seems like i try GIMP out annually and I can never get comfortable with it. Too accustomed to the PS way of doing, everything, I guess.
Is there a DDS plugin that works with GIMP? (or does it do DDS natively perhaps?) Title: Re: Car Skinning Software Post by: rip|mrkavanagh on October 05, 2009, 06:32:52 AM I tried GIMP but the resolution when scaling logos down was no where close to Photoshop. I am looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
Here is a logo pack http://www.nogripracing.com/details.php?filenr=14092 Title: Re: Car Skinning Software Post by: rip|ChITty on October 05, 2009, 06:56:16 AM Yeah, I guess if you have Photoshop there's not much of a reason to play around with it, but if you don't have the 600 for photoshop or don't want to be bothered to hunt up a clean warez version of it, this might be the way to go.
I found a DDS plugin on the web fairly easily. Title: Re: Car Skinning Software Post by: rip|buzinator on October 05, 2009, 08:02:20 AM I found a DDS plugin on the web fairly easily. Cool. Title: Re: Car Skinning Software Post by: rip|ChITty on October 05, 2009, 09:48:52 PM (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3253/3985500021_91fe3a1e25_b.jpg)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2655/3986258898_8e2ce85218_b.jpg) Title: Re: Car Skinning Software Post by: rip|buzinator on October 06, 2009, 06:46:42 AM Sweet, although it's gonna take some getting used to :)
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