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Windows Snipping Tool

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You can quickly make a material using the Windows Snipping tool for Windows10 or 11. windows-key+shift+s brings up the tool. A rectangular snip is the default. It can copy the area defined to the clipboard, and then you can paste it into a new image in your paint program. Resize the image to the nearest multiple of 4 ( saving as 256/512/1024/2048 is a good guide, although any multiple of 4 can be made to work), flip the texture vertically, save as 32-bit PNG, and your image is ready for a MSFS material. You flip the image because it is displayed as DDS in the sim.

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Image snipped from browser, flipped, pasted into 1024x1024 canvas:
FSDeveloper.png

FSDeveloper.png.flags:
Code: 
_DEFAULT=+PRECOMPUTEDINVAVG+QUALITYHIGH

FSDeveloper.material:
XML: 
<Material Version="1.4.0" Name="FSDeveloper" Guid="{B0BE0982-7502-475D-9E61-8CF70B09A806}" SurfaceType="PAINT" Type="CODE_DIFFUSE" Metal="0.000000" Rough="0.000000" Opacity="1.000000" BlendMode="Transparent">
    <TagList/>
    <FlagList/>
    <TextureList>
        <Texture FileName="Textures\FSDeveloper.png" Binding="MTL_BITMAP_DECAL0"/>
    </TextureList>
    <Attributes>
        <Diffuse Red="1.000000" Green="1.000000" Blue="1.000000"/>
        <Emissive Red="0.000000" Green="0.000000" Blue="0.000000"/>
        <UVOffset U="0.000000" V="0.000000"/>
        <UVScale U="1.000000" V="1.000000"/>
        <UVRotate>0.000000</UVRotate>
        <ExtraParameters>
            <Parameter Value="0.000000"/>
            <Parameter Value="0.000000"/>
            <Parameter Value="0.000000"/>
            <Parameter Value="0.000000"/>
            <Parameter Value="0.000000"/>
            <Parameter Value="0.000000"/>
            <Parameter Value="0.000000"/>
            <Parameter Value="0.000000"/>
            <Parameter Value="0.000000"/>
            <Parameter Value="0.000000"/>
            <Parameter Value="0.000000"/>
            <Parameter Value="0.000000"/>
        </ExtraParameters>
    </Attributes>
</Material>

Using a snip takes from a top-down view in MSFS:
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( I didn't like the tree shadow from the default aerial)
 
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