The Repainters Resource! - The Complete Repaint Walkthrough - Having a look at the paint kit

 

 

You've now completed the My Travel logo, time to continue with the repaint.

 

 

Add a layer folder (group) to your logo's layer palette, it is the third button from the right at the bottom. You will be prompted to give a name "My Travel Logo" will suffice.

 

One by one add the layers to the folder in the order they were made. Do this by clicking on the layer and dragging it over the folder, it should disappear into it. Display the contents of the folder by clicking the small arrow on it.

We do this so it is easy to move the logo around but but at the same time keeping its flexibility incase we need to change something later on.

Have your repaint kit ready, then once again click and drag the folder (just like dragging a layer) into the paint kit. It should transfer all the parts of the logo.

 

 

Make sure the folders opacity is set to around 50% and move it (using the Move Tool (V) )so it is positioned over the template's My Travel logo.

With the layer folder still selected go to Edit - Transform - Scale. The (hopefully) familiar box should appear around the logo allowing you to manipulate the size. Hold down shift and drag one of the corners inwards so it more or less matches the size of the template's. To move the logo place your cursor over any part of it so it changes into a black arrow then click and drag. Change the tool and click apply to make the changes.

 

Set the Opacity on the folder back up to 100% and remove the template layer to observe your work..

 

 

Save the psd.

 

Now lets fill in the orange parts of the fuselage.

The method I will use is not normally the method I would generally use, however for ease of use and to avoid confusion I will use it.

First, select the Polygonal Lasso Tool (L) (if it isn't selected once again click and hold to display the drop down and choose if from the list).

Select the layer that contains the curve.

Draw a diagonal line from beginning to end point (like below). Then complete the selection by adding the 2 other sides (clicking when you wish to make a point). You should make a triangle, the selection will be properly made once it starts to be an animated moving line. A small tip is to make the vertical line as far up as you want, then double click. This automatically joins your last set point to the beginning.

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Select the Paint Bucket Tool (G), select it via clicking and holding if not visible. With your orange colour set as your working colour, click somewhere within the selection.

It will fill the selection, press Crtl+D to cancel the selection.

 

Select the Magic Wand Tool (W) and click in the gap remaining. It should select the entire gap.

Now select the Paint Bucket Tool (G) and fill it with the orange colour, then fill it again. The reason for filling it the second time is that it doesn't always reach the outer edges fully. If you feel it looks adequate with one fill then leave it at that.

Cancel the selection using Crtl+D.

 

Work through each part of the curve using the technique above. Once finished, you should have something looking like this:

 

This is what my layer palette looks like:

 

Now for the first mile stone.

Select one of your curve layers and click on the left drop down box (should be saying "Normal"). Select Multiply from the list.

 

Work through each layer (including the logo layer folder, select just the folder to reflect the mode change throughout the folder).

 

 

If orange goes over leading edge of the tail, you can either use the Marquee Tool (M) or Magic Wand (W) in order to create the selection to remove it.

Save the psd.

 

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