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-I'll be using Photoshop 6 for this tutorial, but most image editing software newer than MS Paint should be able to do most everything in this guide. A free image editor called "GIMP" can be found at [http://www.gimp.org/ www.gimp.org].
+I'll be using Photoshop 6 and GIMP 2 for this tutorial, but most image editing software newer than MS Paint should be able to do most everything in this guide. A free image editor called "GIMP" can be found at [http://www.gimp.org/ www.gimp.org].
+If you would like to share your decals with others, you can upload them to this page here: [[Decal Download Page]]
-[[image:warning.png]] Note for Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 users: These versions of Photoshop handle .tga files in a way that is incompatible with MW4:Mercs needs to make transparencies work. To get these versions to work, you will need the Targa.8BI plugin from Photoshop 7.
-*UPDATE: You can download the necessary plug in [http://www.jadefalconclan.com/downloads/TGA_fix_for_Photoshop.rar [here]]. Put it into your Photoshop's file format folder inside the plugins folder. This has been tested with Photoshop 8, CS3 and CS4. Thanks to AnTi90d.
 *UPDATE: I've included some separate instructions for people using Gimp 2. The version I am using is the version that can be found at the link at the top of this page.
 == Making Custom Decals ==

Revision as of 07:54, 15 January 2011