Skin Painting Help

[tristan223]

Hi, I am wanting to start to do my own skins and i need some help getting start because i dont have any decent fonts i can use for numbers etc and any tips or how to do things like multicoloured writing etc. I would be greatful if anyone would be able to help me, i will also put on a pic when i have had ago. Hope you guys can help me

thanks

Tristan

[blymn130]

Hi tristan, I'm relatively new here too, and have gone through similar problems painting my first skin recently. Firstly you are going to need a decent bitmap editing programme like Photoshop or Paintshop Pro.

 

For fonts and bits like that I just trawled the forums for what other people had already asked for, fonts like "Bozz Numbers" (for stock car style numbers), "A&S Xtreme Script" and "1 Chicago Style DNA" (for Brian Evans style writing) can all be found for free with a quick google search, and then I just looked through the fonts I had to fill in the rest, generally the bolder you can find the better. "Eras Bold ITC", "Brush Script MT" and "Stacato222 BT" are all good fonts that should already be on your PC if you have microsoft office.

 

As for multicoloured writing, there are loads of ways to do this... The easiest way if you are a complete newbie (and he way I did it) is to use microsoft word's word art, set the background colour of your word art to the same as the colour of your car, and then just 'gradient fill' your text, and you can customise the colours you want, and do all sorts of magical things when you have a play around in the options. You can also add drop shadows, glows, 3d effects, etc. etc. and then just copy and paste it into your car template.

 

I'm sure someone will tell us both a better way of doing this and of course there are hundreds of fonts that I don't even know about, but hopefully that will get you started.

 

Ben

[blymn130]

For bozz look in the forum at skin painting>(beta) bozz numbers TT> and it's in there

 

Here is: 1 Chicago Style DNA

 

Can't find a&s xtreme for free anywhere now but I only got it a couple of weeks ago so it's around.

 

Also have a look on AZfonts that's pretty good.

Edited May 25, 2011 by blymn130

[tristan223]

okay thanks i will have a go at one later when i got a bit more time thanks alot really appreciate it