So you want to use the numbersets from Racin Grafix and other sources on the web for your NR2003 paint schemes, but you don't know how to use Photoshop very well? This week we will take a very basic look at how to create a number for your car and change the colors and outline on it. This tutorial is for the newest of beginners using photoshop. You Paint Shop Pro guys can probably figure out how to do it by watching this video, the concept is the same, but not every tool will be in the same place. If you have any questions or comments, just reply here in the forums and we will try to get you up and running. Also, let us know what you want to see as far as tutorials go and we will try to get them done for you! Thanks for your support of Racin Grafix!

http://www.racingrafix.com/media/tutorials/Numberset_tut.wmv

This video tutorial was a request by one of the painters here at RG, so I decided I would share it with the public as well. We tend to paint alot of cars here at RacinGrafix.com and filesize can become an issue as different software has different compression ratios when you save a car file. I first noticed this when the NCTS 09 Truck Mod was released, and we started to put together a carset for the 2008 Craftsman Truck Series.

Here's a quick Photoshop NR2003 paint tutorial for roof to fender alignment on the ASA 90 and Late Model 90 templates. I will use a paint scheme from DawsonvilleBill9 that has several angled stripes that run right under the window to show you how to do this. This is not a hard thing to do once you get the hang of it... just takes a little practice to get used to jumping back and forth from photoshop to carviewer.

Basically we will take the stripes and split them into 2 layers and move the layer that's on the roof section 4 pixels forward and then add a little line to our new arrangement. You use carviewer to check your work as you progress.

Click the title of this article to see the complete tutorial or click the tutorials link in the menu above to see all of our paint and 3dsMax tutorials now and in the future! Thanks to DawsonvilleBill9 for the images used in this tutorial and the idea to create it in the first place! Make sure to post back here in our forum with your results, questions or comments!