Painting Resources

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Tutorials
Sheldon's beginner's guide
Pen tool cheatsheet

Free graphics editors
GIMP, GIMPShop
Paint.NET
Artweaver
Krita

Image format converters
ImageTool
DXTBmp
ConvIm

Airliner databases
JetPhotos.Net Census
Avionicks
Airfleets
Planespotters

Fonts
Airbus
Boeing, JAL, ANA
Registration fonts
Typophile (identification community)
WhatTheFont (identification tool)

Logos
Brands of the World (vector)
The Museum of Flight (raster, retro)
Airline Logos Past and Present (font)
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[Alexis]

Those could be of use, I've been searching for them. Nice post!

[sknepper]

Everything I ever needed for repaints. Nice one!

[A9C-MS]

Thanks a lot very for excellent effort

[likes_to_repaint]

good to know, where everything is now ! :lol:

[Morhaf]

I don't know about all airlines, but SWISS is stringent about their Corporate Identity elements. They have their own font (looks like Arial, but is different) I think only SWISS and SWISS VirtualAirline has acces to them (including me), so I guess that's with all airlines.

[esg]

Most airline fonts are customised from fonts that have been around for a while. Here's a short list I compiled a couple of months ago:

Code: Select all

Air France (new)		entirely custom
Air France (old)		custom based on Antique Olive
American Airlines		custom based on Helvetica (Bold)
British Airways			Mylius
Continental			custom likely based on Georgia (bold)
BMI				custom, Chalet (bold) is similar
Delta				custom possibly based on Corinthian
easyJet				Cooper Black
Emirates			entirely custom called "EK03plain"
FedEx				custom based on Univers (Black)
Iberia				custom based on Antique Olive
KLM				Scala Sans (Black) (mechanically expanded)
Lufthansa			custom based on Helvetica
SAS				entirely custom called "Scandinavian"
Swiss International Air Lines	custom based on Univers
Swissair			custom based on Futura

[Kurosaki]

sorry to revive this, but I wanted to get the answer straight from the horses mouth: Is there a paint kit available for the FS2002 Project Airbus A320? ("pa320aih.zip")...I've spent a couple hours looking and cant seem to locate a clean/white paintkit. I've just noticed what a nice bird it is (WITH A VC...) and wanted to go crazy and do a couple paints. I checked the links above but they don't appear to fit this particular aircraft (the 2002 model)...anywise, thanks in advance for the info.

[esg]

No

[Kurosaki]

Thanks for the info.

[gregc320]

The A320 Paintkit.. Most of the psd's are comin up as "This layered Photoshop image was not saved with a composite mage"? how do i fix that?

[calmeida]

ImageTool can make textures for FSX...Which one is better?