Paintshop users!

[windrunner]

I need your help: can you open the Photoshop "psd" files into paintshop? and if so, do you still have the whole originals layers there?

Any help is appreciated. Also, if you are a photoshop user, is there any plugin that allow our ".psd" files to be saved as paintshop ".psp"?

Thanks!

[lifejogger]

windrunner said:

I need your help: can you open the Photoshop "psd" files into paintshop? and if so, do you still have the whole originals layers there?

Any help is appreciated. Also, if you are a photoshop user, is there any plugin that allow our ".psd" files to be saved as paintshop ".psp"?

Thanks!

Yes you can open photoshop files (psd) in paintshop. And if the photoshop file has layers you would also have them in paintshop.

The Fokker F28 repaint kit is in psd format and I had no problems opening them and then saving them and the layers in the paintshop format psp.


jogger

[windrunner]

Yes, I was pretty sure about that; I had an evaluation paintshop version some years ago and I was able to open and save files in psd format. But it doesn't seems to be the case with all psd files; actually I sent some psd to a guy who is working with PS and there was no way the files could be readed by his PS v7.

Anyway, I've found a solution, by installing a plugin to Photoshop that allows me to open psp files and save psd as psp...it's cool.

In case some of you is interested, it's called "Paint Shop Pro Format" and you can find it here (other interesting plugin for Photoshop and painthop can also be find there).

telegraphics.com.au/sw/#pspformat

[lifejogger]

I purchased a used Photoshop program and have been playing with it but since I have been using Paint Shop Prof for so long I am hesitant to switch to it because of the steep learning curve.

[froggy]

I'm trying to learn Photoshop from scratch so I know what you mean about learning curves! I want better textures for my scenery but I would like to have a try at aircraft repaints as well. Which software would you consider superior for this purpose? And what's the Abacus Repaint software like?

[windrunner]

Froggy that's an interesting question. Basically, the best tool os the one you learn, no matter wich one.

I started with paintshop (many years ago, I can't say wich version) and eventually switched to photoshop. Professional image designers have Photoshop as their main working tool, mainly because you have lot of good filters and other options that expand the program to the infinite. If you want to see how Photoshop is is used in art take a look at this site,

www.alessandrobavari.com/

We don't need all that power, though. For us is more than enough to work with several different layers and to apply some filters, to use special brushes, etc, something that painthop also does. So, it's more or less the same when it comes to paint planes.

It's not easy (if not almost impossible) to recognize wich texture was done with one program or the other. Even some payware artist use paintshop for their planes.

If you have choosen Photoshop you can't go wrong. Try to play some easy tricks at first, always using layers and saving. I am still learning new tricks after all these years, and I go to the web weekly to see what's new. At the end, it's always a question of "updating" your knowledge.

[windrunner]

I forgot about the Abacus program: I never got used to Fsrepaint and uninstalled it after some trying. It's a very basic program, that saves time to some people, but you'll need an external paint program to do your paint work the same. It shows you a preview of your work on the plane in an screen. I prefer to fire the sim and see by myself what's going on.

[froggy]

Thanks Damian, I may be tapping your brain some more soon.

[windrunner]

You are welcome! to ask is the first step to Wisdom (at least that's what Ray McCooney told me last time Ive been in "Little Scotland" ;D)