painting decals on model?

[eptigo]

i wanna make some decals, but not know where to begin. guess i suck at that ;;

 

all this time ive been trying to use photoshop to build the stuff, but ive been wondering

 

wondering if theres a program i could use to paint the materials right on the model, that would be awsome

[zandoriastudios]

look at the thread "AM:Paint" on this forum....

[Caroline]

I had a lot of trouble working out how to do this, and didn't really understand it until I saw Will Sutton's Decal video, which is 2 hours available for purchase from his logo just above, or from the Hash shop - the Siggraph 2006 video.

 

Will has also written this tutorial:

 

http://www.zandoria.com/uv.htm

 

which is excellent, but in a complex area like this, a video is so much easier to understand.

 

I have A:M Paint, which is also brilliant especially along seams, but I don't always use it. Sometimes I create the UV outline in A:M then paint it in Photoshop Elements or Twisted Brush, just like Will's tutorial above.

 

It's a complex area, though, and needs a lot of time invested, and I'm still not good enough to publicly post decalled objects .