Hi!

I wan't to made a skin on myself. I'm using gimp and I have a little problem with it. When I want to paint my car example fully green, what am I suppose to do? I'm tried everything, and still the whole car template screen fills green. I'm using Pro-Kit. And also, I want wires off. Just car's profile to see (doors, hood/bonnet...). Please help someone! And dont have to say "simply use Photoshop" NEVER! I'm sooo fed up with Photoshop that I cant ever think it:nol2:. Simple "tutorial" on English or Finnish. If it helps, I have GIMP 2.0 and Win7


-Hippie

E: and VERY sorry about my bad english!!

Open the pro kit.psd with Gimp and turn on layers (ctrl+L). You'll be able to see/select/turn off/on each layer.

General GIMP tutorials: http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

How I can hide wires of finished skin? Theres just "background" layer on right... What do I suppose to do? I made it yesterday and I thought that I'll remove the wires now.

what type is the file saved in? normal pro-kit gives you the possibility to hide the wireframe, but sounds like you have put it into .jpg or something else

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How I can hide wires of finished skin? Theres just "background" layer on right... What do I suppose to do? I made it yesterday and I thought that I'll remove the wires now.

In the Master Skinnerz pro kits, the .pds files contain layers. Make sure you opened the correct .psd file. (See link to find the originals) When you finish the skin, turn off the layer called "wireframe" or "object" before saving the skin...

See attachment for these layers... In it, you can see the "MZ wire frame" turned off (no "eye" to the left of the "MZ wire frame").

PS: Well, the Pro-kit is a .psd (photoshop file) which can be opened with GIMP (Im not sure if you need an add-on for that). When you open the prokit .psd file, you can see the different layers; background, bonnet and usually specific layers for left side, right side, front, rear, top (roof + hood), spoilers etc. You'll be painting on specific layers and finally merging all the layers (happens when you save your files as a .jpg).

Note: Always save the work-in-progress skin with the ".xcf" file type, this is like the .psd file, it'll save the seperate layers. When you save as .jpg, the image gets flattened, and next time you open it you wont be able to select specific layers...

The Master Skinnerz kits can be found here: http://www.barkingpig.org/msz/pages/kits.php