I am a freelance model railroader, and rather imaginative. Becase of this, I have always liked coloring blank locomotive templates to experiment with paintscemes. Up until rec entry, I did thais on Appleworks Painting. However, Apple has discontinued this. I was wondering if anyone has any advice on which program I should get if I want to continue to color drawings (which, mind you, makes paints scheme design that much easier.) It has to be Mac compatible.
Thank you.
Are you using sketches or actual photographs. Any good photo editing program will allow you to change the color of your locomotives.
If you are using sketches, then any publishing or drawing program would have the same sort of capacity. There are free ones out there, but the LION likes Serif Software, as good as Adobe without the price tag.
Try googling paintshop.railfan.net It might have what you are looking for. Don’t know if it is Mac compatable or not tho.
The site appears to be PaintShop.Railfan.net I couldn’t get it to load without the capital letters.
Hope this helps
yes that’s the site I use to get the sketches from. BUt What I am trying to be able to do is this:
http://myweb.msoe.edu/~westr/graphics/Amtrak%20pa1-a.png
Drawing programs let you design shapes but you can only color shapes individually. I need something that will actually let me divide shapes up, and fil certain parts of the sketch with different colors. I need a painting program for that, but I’m not sure which one to use.
Inkscape is great for this type of thing. It’s a vector-based program like Adobe Illustrator, but it’s FREE! It’s very easy to go back and make changes to color, font style, and line widths.
http://inkscape.org/download/?lang=en
Steve S