paint template ??

[Mb81567]

Hello

I use PSP 7.0 and when I open up the paint template in paintshop
format I can see all the layers but I am un able to separate any of them and I cant remove any of the layers . Any Suggestions .
I am very familiar with these type of templates. I painted some
a/c for the ATR, Eastern Express and the Northwest Airlink.
Id love to do some work on the 727 but I cant seem to anything with the template. Could I have gotten a bad template. And No the layers have NOT been merged together. Any help apreciated.

Mike Bryant

[ToddNicholson]

Not sure. I use Photoshop and the template works as it should. Not sure why it would be any different for PSP. Maybe someone who uses PSP will jump in with a suggestion.

[jcboliveira]

No problem over here PSP 7. However just looked in to it and PSP reports 260Meg file. Maybe a resources problem?

José

[Gregory]

>
>No problem over here PSP 7. However just looked in to it
>and PSP reports 260Meg file. Maybe a resources problem?
>
>José
>

Am having fun with the Textures here. :)

What used to be a robust workstation with 512MB of ECC RAM is brought to it's knees with the DF template. Also being a big fan (no pun intended) of PSP7, have saved the PSD file (Photoshop) as a PSP (Paintshop) and the file is much smaller on disk.

With a 400MB footprint the pagefile can grind unless one has 1GB of RAM. To work around this issue, delete out appropriate layers and save a separate DF-100_template, and DF-200_template as seen below.



Volume in drive G is Edmain Array 160 GB

Directory of G:\FlightSim\727 (Dreamfleet)\template


FILENAME FILESIZE FILESIZE in PSP7

DF727_Repaint_Template.zip 29,896,792
DF727_Repaint_Template.psd 51,333,530 380.1 MB

DF727_Repaint_Template.psp 20,707,695 380.1 MB
DF727-100_Template.psp 16,381,965 253.7 MB
DF727-200_Template.psp 16,885,299 274.5 MB

DF727_white_Template.bmp 23,401,000 22.8 MB

5 File(s) 135,211,466 bytes


TYPICAL FILE CONVERSION

df727_fuse1_t.bmp 32-bit 5,462 KB
df727_fuse1_t.bmp DXT3 1,025 KB
df727_fuse1_t.bmp DXT1 513 KB

df727_fuse1_t.bmp DXT3 512x512 257 KB (w/unsharp mask)
df727_fuse1_t.bmp DXT1 512x512 129 KB (w/unsharp mask)





Also, a quick look at filesizes for texture conversion. It may help with older and slower
hardware to reduce bitmaps by a factor of 10x to 40x. :)


-Gregory