Tutorial: How to Easily Transfer Paints Between Templates in Photoshop
- Thread starter James Hodge
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Hello, enjoyed your tutorial.... I've been using, playing NR2003 for years. Now that I'm retired, I think I wouls like to try painting a few car, or at least add a few numbers to the Great Paint renders already on the website. Like the Netspend camaro, or the Lowes Camaro.. Just need to add a #5 to them. The screen I saw in your tutorial, the Photoshop program looks nice and somewhat easy to follow, Where Can I get that Photoshop software?
Anyway, thanks for your help.
Anyway, thanks for your help.
The version of Photoshop I use is rather old and I got it for free when I was a design student long ago. You can get the current version from Adobe.com, but it has a rather hefty subscription charge. I'd recommend checking out a program called GIMP if you want something similar. I don't know if this tutorial can carry over to that program but from what I understand it is very similar and perfectly capable of painting cars.
yea im currently a student and my tech center is paying for my Creative Cloud until i graduate in about a month. and the charge for Creative Cloud is 65 a month but it comes with a lot of useful tools (65 a month is still way to heavy for my standards). you can pay 20 a month for photoshop itself but i believe thats to much as well.
I highly recommend the Affinity Suite if you are looking to get away from the clutches of Adobe. You buy the program once and its yours for life. Many creatives in the industry also use it so its not some flimsy low-end program.
I once was a huge supporter of Adobe back in the day, like I own the classic CS2/CS3/CS4/CS5 suites/Video Collection Bundles they used to sell. Once Adobe removed perpetual licensing and went crazy with subscription services I started looking for alternatives and never looked back. Its not the cost for me, I can easily afford it but the principle. I refuse to 'rent' software, its a ridiculous system where you end up paying more in the long run + if you need a legacy feature it can be removed as the program is not a stationary program version.
Having used Affinity Photo for 4+ years now I feel right at home. There is always the pain point when switching from a comfortable program to something foreign but once you learn the ropes of a new tool you don't want to leave. If I had to pick one feature that I really like is Affinity Photo uses non-destructive layers for pretty much everything by default making real time editing quicker and not having to create a bunch of nesting layers and compositions to achieve simply stuff that Photoshop made annoying.
Another program that you can use that's free is Gimp, though keep in mind that some of the more recent stuff being released in Gimp's native xcf format can only be opened in the 2.10 version, which in my opinion is slightly inferior to the 2.8 version of Gimp, though it's still a good version to use. It has many of the same features as Photoshop as well, and is probably more user-friendly when it comes to the UI.
I use Corel Paint Shop Pro to paint. It does have some limitations sometimes but for the most part it works in painting most schemes.
Thank you for this tutorial, I just stumbled scross it today and even using the latest version of photoshop it works like a charm, thanks!
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