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View Poll Results: What software do you use to recolor/texture a model?
PhotoShop 45 32.14%
Coreldraw 13 9.29%
Gimp 17 12.14%
MSPaint 14 10.00%
Inkscape 14 10.00%
Paint Shop Pro 22 15.71%
Other (specify) 15 10.71%
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Old 09-29-2010, 11:25 AM
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cool - thanks for the run down
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I design and recolor with Inkscape. Occasionnaly, if the source file is in a bitmap format (BMP/JPG/GIF), I'll use MS Paint but I prefer working on a vector file. So I'll either use the vectorizing feature of Inkscape or retrace the model.
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Old 09-29-2010, 12:51 PM
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inkscape will take a file and vectorize it? like I can import a pdf and work on it in there etc etc?
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Yes but it's not perfect. That's why I switched to retracing for Paragon's F-104. But I got pretty good results when I vectorized USAF badges (Thunderbirds, AETC, AFMC...).

Howto: Vectorize images in Inkscape Motho ke motho ka botho

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like I can import a pdf and work on it in there etc etc?
Inkscape will import only one PDF page, but yes you can do that. And sometimes there's no need to vectorize: the pdf already uses vectors and that's what you get when opening the file in Inkscape.
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sweet! good to know
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On the one and only model that I recolored so far, I used MS Paint. I do now have Photoshop CS4 that I got a couple of weeks ago, but haven't tried to use it for anything as I am still learning about it.
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I use Photoshop 7. It's an older version, but my wife got it at the student rate in college. We got a whole Adobe design sweet for $400!
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Paint.net is a great program and it's free.

Also there's Illustrator.
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For the use we put it to, Photoshop 7 is a very usable tool, and can still be found occasionally on ebay for very reasonable price.
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If any of you have the iPad could that be used for repainting?
Chris, my wife has an iPad and I checked in the app store and saw only one app that may work in repainting, but it was advertised as actually painting a picture from a blank canvas. Couldn't figure out if something could be imported and worked on by description.....didn't want to buy only to find it would not do what expected for repainting. There is a Photoshop app, but it appears that it is tailored to actually do basic photo editing like adjust color, brightness, contrast and cropping.

Another thing that has me thinking, I am not too familiar with how Apple syncs stuff when a master document is maintained on a desktop while edits are done on the iPad. Makes me wonder if the syncing will delete one or the other document. I'm pretty much only familiar with syncing music, movies and photos that are already edited and won't be synced anymore. Something to research I suppose.
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