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Sam Coat

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Hello guys,

I have decided to take up livery painting. I used to do this very crudely and quite some time ago. So I know VERY limited stuff. In PhotoShop
I have the Q400 paint kit loaded. I have since figured out how to rotate and flip sections and have the airline name and logo in place on both
sides of the fuselage. However my question is this. The official color of the logo changes, if I place the layer all the way behind the window line
and door markings as the blending mode is normal. Because the base kit already has its base shadows, the normal blending mode darkens the logo.
Is this an accepted method for livery painting? I can't move the logo layer any higher as then part of the logo will block the base door paint and decals.
I tried the other blending modes, but all completely change the logo color.

Thanks,

Xander
 
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Heretic

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You'll need to reshuffle or edit the other layers to get your desired result. Or brighten the logo to account for the darkening effect from the shadow layer. Or play with blending modes and transparencies.

Many ways to skin a cat. ;)
 
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swaor

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I assume you have the Majestic paintkit. The majestic paintkit is a bit... more difficult... :rolleyes:
So what I would do is to paint what I want to have on it (e.g. Your logo), put the layers ontop of all the base layers (Shadows, Dirt, windows etc.)
And change the mode from "Normal" to "Multiply" (which has worked best for me) or whatever mode suits you best.
mode.png

You can scroll trough the modes and do some try and error which mode fits best. Altough I found "Color", "Overlay" and "Multiply" to work best.
Otherwise you could also try to bring the opacity down or just leave it at 100% in case of smaller logos or similar smaller things, the bumps will be shown anyways because of majestic´s spec maps
Hope that helped you out a bit! ;)
 
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