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JimmyK's Nascar Racing 2003 Season Painting Tutorial

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    I showed how to make some basic curves with the previous car, now I'll try to make some straight line graphics. I won't go through making the whole car because we did that previously. My son has a toy car that has some flames on it that looks pretty cool, so that's what I'll try to do.

    This what the finished flames look like. The next picture shows what settings I used to start making the flames. The flames are triangles! First make a new raster image.

    Once you have the triangle looking like you want it too rotate it 90 degrees to the left. This lies it on its side. Copy it and paste it into on of the graphics layers on your template. I just kept pasting till I had the side looking like I wanted. Because we're using filled triangles there's some of the outside line that we don't want.

    I used the Paint brush to remove the  orange lines I didn't want, and to make the nose of the car white. The opposite side of the car is the same but reversed so I copied , pasted and flipped the image. Using the grid helps line things up. The hood was a bit more tricky. I decided that a Bezier curve across the hood would look better than a straight line. It took a few back and forth looks between the car viewer and PSP to get everything lined up. Then back to the triangle and copy, paste again! Since one side of the hood is the mirror of the other just make one side then copy it and paste m flip and away you go. I left enough room so that I could put a single "flame" right up the middle. Once again the orange lines extend to far into the white on the nose so out comes the paint brush to remove them.

A simple design but I think it looks pretty good.