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Old 10-01-2013, 01:47 AM   #21 (permalink)
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This talk of fastbacks gave me a different idea. So I chopped the top from a 2014 Mazda3 onto a Mazda MX-5. I had to piecemeal it and extensively blend it. The paint doesn't even match... But this is my first time trying Gimp after all these years of MS paint.



I'll plug it into the aerodynamic streamline tool tomorrow. I'm going to bed.

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Old 10-01-2013, 02:20 AM   #22 (permalink)
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This talk of fastbacks gave me a different idea. So I chopped the top from a 2014 Mazda3 onto a Mazda MX-5. I had to piecemeal it and extensively blend it. The paint doesn't even match... But this is my first time trying Gimp after all these years of MS paint.
I can do plenty of stuff in Paint before Gimp even loads, but having used it recently, I am keeping it open, just in case.

Sadly, when I need Gimp's advanced features, or what little I know of them, I usually go back and forth between it and Paint. Paint is always easy to use, if it can even do what you need it to.
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