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GIMP Experience: Intermediate Level

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iv seen aircraft with the union flag painted on them ,is it possable to" paint" a flag on my faverate aircraft useing gimp ?????iv been at it for weeks now and my results have been poor to say the least. thanks in advance.

One thing you need is to work on a new transparent layer then play with layer modes to see what the best results will be. I commonly use grain merge for something like this as it allows texture to show through without affecting the colour too much.

skiny: do you mean something like this but with a different plane and flag?

in that case i can tell you exactly how i made this one - i wasn't too fussy about the details because i was in a hurry, but if you're willing to put down a bit of time and work on it you should be able to get it to look really good.

oh, and welcome to gimp chat !

thats what im talking about it would be great if you could let me know how,slow learner so would you put it out step by step please ,
many thanks

@skiny,
What is the aircraft you wish to place the flag on? I could do it and then post how it was done, so that you can follow along.
I just need to have an image of the craft and flag, with notes on how you want the flag oriented.

hi,the aircraft is an avro vulcan and the flag is that of great britain(no longer)cant seem to get my photos uploaded,i think there included now

@skiny,

Where would you like the flag to be places on the craft?

Also, are you sure that you want to use a British flag that looks like it's waving?

That is a good question Wallace, I thought the same thing. I would think the Union Jack should be flat, and not wavy for this job.

#Skiny:
You would try this with another pic of the plane, without camo paint. The best way is use a layer with the plane in grayscale to apply a displacement filter or Garagecoder's warp map filter (G'mic). Also you'll need to use more of one layer with the flag and place these according aircraft perspective. The work would make with mask layers over the color pic. The problem is obtain the best blend mode

#AnMal:
Is the Viggen's pic original or manipulated?

@Molly,

Yes same here.
I'm former military and if there were any pictures/decals or paintings of the flag on a vehicle or anything else, they would have been non-waving depictions of the flag.

jamac4k: a manipulation of course, and not a very good one at that . surprised you recognised the viggen!

#AnMal:
I'm grandson and son of military pilots. I can't be a military pilot who i wished.
I love any craft that flight althought I'm seaman.
It is easy to me recognized swedish fighters.

This is my friend c4k:
c4k-hispano aviación ha1112 based in me 109G

Here is a PNG image of the added flag. I also included the xcf file that I used to make this manipulation.

hi lads .yes when iv looked at the photo again it is the way it was painted by the raf.theres many a union jack about .this one should do it.if ypou could put the red stripe down the fuselage it should cover ok iv included the union flagged hawks to give you some idea of how its draped on the aircraft,thanks again.


sorry lads but this is the only flight worthy avro vulcan in the world not the viggen which is only a third of the size.sorry to pick you up on it lads .

just finished writing this and wallace has kindly put the flag on but it was the whole aircraft i wanted covered

my mistake lads i didnt relize it was wallaces photo you were refering to having a senior moment there.no used to seeing a viggen in them colors

@Skiny,

The photo of the Viggen was posted by AnMal.

The whole aircraft!... That's another story entirely, don't know if I can do that and have it look convincing. What you want would make a really great challenge for us Gimpers.
I can give it a go, but I can't make any promises.

I can, gimme a little bit, I'll post an xcf.

@ek22,

I'd love to see you pull it off.

i have seen an aircraft on the web done a while ago though it was a hawker hunter painted with the stars and stripes,but i cant find the page,i have tried a number of times now to cover it but a lot of the detail ,shadows/ shine and curves simply dont come out .The hawks look brillient in the union flag and the vulcan would be out of this world.