Photoshop Tutorials

Making quick rivets and smooth curving panel and rivet lines
See this tutorial as well. -adlabs6

By: adlabs6

There is an easy shortcut to making rivets and panel lines on skins, ...

1. Open photoshop (I use CS2) and go to File/New.

2. Make a background of any dimension and use a color (a ...

The many shapes of different brushes in Photoshop make it possible to obtain interesting effects.

Choosing a brush

To change brush it is enough to click on the small arrow located on the right of the "shape" of brush and to select another one from the window that opens.


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Photoshop offers many possabilities to make selections. Here you will find a small introduction on how to use them.

The traditional way of making a selection

This is the easiest and most well known method. But it offers many options

By default a rectangualar selectionshape is suggested. But by clicking and holding the mousebutton down on the icon you ...

The system of layers in Photoshop is particularly useful for the realization of news skins. It makes it possible to make the various elements composing a skin (camouflages, markings, stains etc) in different layers and to work them individually.

Creating a layer

By default when you start a new document (Ctrl+N) only the layer "background" is present.

To add new layers it is enough to click on the icon "create a new layer" located at the bottom of the window showing the layers. The new layers come on top ...

This tutorial will show you how you can create outlined numbers like used by the Luftwaffe for example.

You start with typing the text or having the shape you need outlined on a seperate layer.


Next you select the layerstyle called Stroke from the Layer menu.
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