I want to make my own train livery how do i do it?

[Jorge Da Silva]

Hello,

I want to create a new train livery for 165/0's, a 9-car HST with Mark 3 carriages and class 180s. How do i create my own livery.

 

[Llanigraham]

Hello,

I want to create a new train livery for 165/0's, a 9-car HST with Mark 3 carriages and class 180s. How do i create my own livery.

Use MS Paint or Photoshop or some other photo manipulation programme on a photo of the unit?

 

[yorkie]

Use MS Paint or Photoshop or some other photo manipulation programme on a photo of the unit?

MS Paint? Are you sure about that? I've never heard of Paint described as a photo manipulation program; it's very basic!

Photoshop, yes. But how? Actually if anyone could post a tutorial I'd be interested to hear how people do it.

I do know a bit about Photoshop and even teach people how to use it. But I am self-taught and I'm keen to learn more techniques. I also use an old version (CS4).

When things are back to normal, it would be good to have a forum Photoshop Workshop and share tips

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Photoshop, yes. But how? Actually if anyone could post a tutorial I'd be interested to hear how people do it.

I'm sure there's a few on YouTube - there's certainly some telling you how to copy a livery over from one thing onto another.

 

[Islineclear3_1]

I'm still using CS4. I'm sure there are ways in which you can apply masks and replace colour but I'm not that savvy. And I don't think I would have the time, nor the patience !

 

[Llanigraham]

MS Paint? Are you sure about that? I've never heard of Paint described as a photo manipulation program; it's very basic!

I've used Paint to change the colours of things in photographs. It can be done but it is tedious and basic.

 

[Domh245]

The 'how' doesn't really matter - there's different ways of achieving the same result (the colour you want where you want it!) - hue adjustment, airbrush, different layer modes, etc, which you'll be able to pick up from more general photo editing tutorials. Having the right source material also helps - the current plethora of white liveries makes it a lot easier to tweak things

 

[yorkie]

I've used Paint to change the colours of things in photographs. It can be done but it is tedious and basic.

I'd be interested to see the results of someone attempting to change the livery of a photograph of train in MS Paint; I can't think it would be up to much. I really don't think this is what the OP was asking for!

 

[Energy]

I managed to do one with GIMP, an open source photo tool which is free but a bit worse than Photoshop.

 

[Domh245]

I've done all of my stuff in GIMP - it's not easy to learn necessarily but it's perfectly functional once you've learnt how to do things with it