Step 3 – The Stripes

Now the vertical stripes have to be done at the rear of the fuselage. This can be a little time consuming and requires some effort to ensure that the stripes match up to the tail section that we will be doing in step 4.   (See Figure 16)

Figure 16

Tools to be used: Line  and Dropper

From the image above we can see that the first line starts below the third window from the door and runs up at an angle through the top left corner of the fourth window. We will draw all of the outlines for the stripes in orange as the blue can be filled in later.

First we need to re-establish the orange colour that we want to use – select the Dropper Tool – move the cursor over the edge of the orange rectangle you did for the first part of the fuselage and click – we now have the same orange colour for the work with the stripes.

We will have to draw 14 sloping vertical lines across the back of the aircraft.  These will be the outlines for the later filling in using the Retouch method.

Select the Line Tool – in the Tools Control box – set Line Type to Normal – set Width to 1

The first line is critical for angle as this will set the visual angle for all of the others. Do not worry about drawing through the windows as we will fix that a little later.

When your lines are finished, use the Line Tool to cap off each of the yellow line areas. (Figure 17)

Figure 17

Tools to be used: Wand  and Retouch

Now we need to fill in the areas using the retouch method. First select the Magic Wand tool – we will be selecting several areas so we will need to use the SHIFT key as we select (click inside) each of the areas that will be coloured orange.

Select all of the areas that require to be filled in with orange.

We have highlighted the areas we now want to work with – We now need to darken the area so that our colour retouch can take a richer effect. Select Menu Item Colours – Adjust – Brightness/Contrast – set the Brightness to –40 (minus 40) and the Contrast to 8 – click OK

Click on the Retouch Tool – set the Tools Control box Retouch Mode to Colour to Target

Holding the mouse button down – rub over the highlight area repeatedly with the colour orange and it will slowly mature into a dark orange/yellow type line but all of the detail will still be there.

If you discover that you missed an area – don’t worry – finish off the Retouch for the current area – then do the process again for the area/s you missed.

Done at last but a bit messy for some of the windows and the door.  (Figure 18)  We can clean that up with a bit of cut and paste and a bit of line drawing.

Figure 18

Tools to be used:  Selection  and Line

Use the Selection Tool to select one of the clean windows.  Press CTRL C to copy the area and then CTRL V to paste it as a new image.  Clean up the background area around the window using the background colour then we will have a crisp window to replace the ones that are a bit messy.  Use Ctrl C to copy the image then go back to your main texture and Use CTRL SHIFT E to paste as this will make the background transparent during the paste process for the windows.

A Clean Window  for use if you can’t clean one up. (Copy this and paste to your Texture work using white as the background colour) 

Select the Selection Tool and right click on the tail image (anywhere will do) this will release the select on the last window.

Use the Line Tool and the Colour Black to correct the door frame.

Done! (Figure 19) And starting to look very good.  We are almost finished with this only the blues to go

Figure 19

Tools to be used: Dropper  and Line

Open the Bahamasair-2.bmp

Select the Dropper Tool in the left column and then move the dropper over the Bahamasair Tail in the image – select the colour of the Tail area (be sure to select one that is appropriate as there are several blues here) using the left mouse button (to change the top colour choice to the blue colours of the tail and fuselage).

Close the Bahamasair-2.bmp image.

Back to our texture – using the line tool outline the area that is to be blue in the rear fuselage area.  This will enable us to select the areas to be blue with the Magic Wand.

This does not have to be neat but must be a closed area otherwise the wand will select too large an area (Figure 20).

Figure 20

Tools to be used: Wand  and Retouch

Now we need to fill in the areas using the retouch method. First select the Magic Wand tool – we will be selecting several areas so we will need to use the SHIFT key as we select (click inside) each of the areas that will be coloured Blue.

We have highlighted the areas we now want to work with – We now need to darken the area so that our colour retouch can take a richer effect. Select Menu Item Colours – Adjust – Brightness/Contrast – set the Brightness to –40 (minus 40) and the Contrast to 8 – click OK

Click on the Retouch Tool – set the Tools Control box Retouch Mode to Colour to Target

 Holding the mouse button down – rub over the highlight area repeatedly with the colour blue and it will slowly mature into a blue area but all of the detail will still be there.

If you discover that you missed an area – don’t worry – finish off the Retouch for the current area – then do the process again for the area/s you missed.

Figure 21

The blue areas look a little too light for the true colours of the original.  (Figure 21) So now using the Magic Wand again select all of the blue areas using the shift key.

Select Menu Item Colours – Adjust – Brightness/Contrast – set the Brightness to –20 (minus 20) and the Contrast to 8 – click OK

Hows that!   (Figure 22) Starting to look like the original aircraft now.


Figure 22

Great work – This texture is almost done – only the tail to go.

Time to save again

Now go to Step 4 - The Tail

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