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LOL! @ VRV :) Here is another composite. An Su-25T is reversed into parking. BW Shaggy

Cheers mate. Here is another version of it which I think looks better. Sorry that you already sent an mail to your friend with the first one.. but i´l post it anyway :)

Well I usually start out with a screenshot from a simulator. In this case 2 separate screenshots from FSX. Then I use teh pen tool in photoshop to cut out the aircraft from teh screenshot. When I have done this with both teh screenshots "planes" I search for a suitable background to fit the scene. Sometimes I use up to 3 separate real images and merge them together into making the background. After im satisfied with the BG and plane cutouts, I start on the global lightning. It´s easy to find good image resources on the net, but not easy to find images with the same angle on the lightning as in your screenshots. So you need to correct this to make everything look correct. How I fixed it in the tornado picture above can be seen in the bottom left corner. There you will see a truck casting a shadow on the ground, in the same angle as the plane wings casts shadows on the fuselage and fuel tanks. This is just a small detail that makes the whole image fit together. So when the lightning is done you need to focus on the shadowing. You can go pretty far with these as military planes usually has allot that casts shadows... Antennas, Weapons etc.. When this is done I focus on the weathering and plane graphics, not fun to have 2 planes looking identical, so I usually just go over the planes a little different with the burn tool to add weathering here and there. To get a much bigger weathering effect you can also go to blending mode and add a pattern filter. In the tornado edit I added a cloud filter, switched the blending mode to soft light and reduced the opacity. that way I got some areas brighter then other, making the plane look a little more dirty and weathered. I always say there is a million and one ways to do things in photoshop. What I just explained im sure another person would do differently. Its the way I choose to work in PS ;) it takes some time to get used to the tools and menus, as with any computer program, but when you are comfortable and used to it there isent much to it really :) Im happy you all like my work and I will continue to post stuff here. Best Wishes Shaggy

Cheers guys :) Very nice replies, I appreciate it allot. And I couldn't resist the request of making a Tornado image. So I hope this one does the trick :) BW Shaggy

2 older ones I haven't posted yet. 2 UAE Mirage 2000´s are scrambled after an air traffic controller lost contact with an Emirates A340 airliner heading in a dangerous collision course with an BA 747 and an Turkish airliners 737-800 . When airborne the fighter pilots got contact with the airliner which then claimed to have an transponder problem?..... They escorted the A340 down for a safe landing and was met by an convoy of airport police and military personnel. No one was injured and the cause to the communications problem had been a frequency set wrong in the radio. An honest pilot mistake and the crew was back to work for emirates the following week. 2 UAE Mirage 2000´s flying over the desert.

haha yeah it rocks ;) Added a second version were I changed the cabin and add a winchman checking the ground out

Aaa sweet!!! . Jag satt i Balder och i Kanonen när det var uppvisning på säve :( såg dock team 60 en kort sekund innan jag stupade ner 70 grader ... :P

Each year Swedish Air Force personnel and especially fighter pilots train in cold Arctic climate. This scene simulates an early morning in the Swedish mountains in the far north of Sweden. An HKP 10 Super Puma is making a final approach to a field near the airbase to pick some pilots to fly them out into the wilderness. Then the Super Puma will get re-dressed with skies and is going to head further north for some mountainous landing training. An TP-84 Herkules is doing a turn to short final in the background to deploy some Arctic rangers for an exercise "were the puma later will perform some important SAR tasks" . Hope you like it :) BW Shaggy Original Screenshot http://www.virtualavia.com/Shaggys-Artworks/Original-Northern-ops.jpg

He might be older and wiser then you John ;)

Its included in teh 1.1 version of teh gripen mod Vekkinho

Cheers! Crooped it a bit and added water reflections to the fuselage and an reflection of the horizon on the windows. I also changed the frame colour. And very nice shots Tigrou, i like the last one the best, the shape of the gripen looks so good :) BW Shaggy

+1 Aeroscout :)

An French Navy AS365 Dauphin flying past the famous La Vieille Lighthouse. BW Shaggy Original Screenshot

Hey Ross. I Haven't got any mail. I have made one Sea King artwork but I can do more. BW Shaggy

IS there anyone who has made a skins file which makes this great mod compatible with the Standard skins? no skin in the list is correct and I ahve been trying all day to get one of my own skins to work but without success

no worries budd :)

Nice one Mastiff. But it looks a bit squashed..... Maybe the aspect ratio is wrong?

Cheers guys. Sure i can try. Its hard to say until I have seen the picture you are going to send me. But nothing is impossible :) By request I also made a desktop version of my Aussie Acceleration edit. Cheers Mike. I made an Desktop version by request which you can download here if you are interested: Aussie Acceleration 1680 Desktop version

Another one ... An Australian F-111 Cutting through an humid summer morning sky, pulling some G´s and kicking in the burners. Aussie Acceleration BW Shaggy Original Screenshot http://www.virtualavia.com/Shaggys-Artworks/Original-Aardvark.jpg

Cheers guys :) Here is another one for you . A Dutch Navy Lynx heading out to sea. Original Screenshot http://www.virtualavia.com/Shaggys-Artworks/Original-Lynx.jpg

Updated version of my Sea king work.. Added some more of the image to the rear of the Sea King. Crooped away some of the right side. Added some more water underneath the Chopper and added a rotor wash effect. "its a little faded but it´s there". Adjusted the flare and smoke effect slightly. BW Shaggy

Yes you just hit Shift + F-2 or Shift + F-10

Here you go Ross.... hope you like it. I have worked a few hours on it now, and im very satisfied with this edit, but there is always room to add more detail. BW Shaggy Belgian RS02 on winching exercise. Original Screenshot http://www.virtualavia.com/Shaggys-Artworks/Original-MK48.jpg

Sorry Ross I Don´t but im always up for a challenge :)

hehe cheers guys. but it should really be Sea King . The Sea King Helicopter im referring too :)