RE: Recommendation for graphical app. for doing color schemes?
BTW, I've used PSP with the Great Planes' REAL FLIGHT G3 simulator. That sim allows you to paint your own designs on the models in it. When I got back into RC last year, I wanted to work the rust off my thumbs with a sim before risking any balsa. But I also wanted to "fly" the models that I was building.
I had a Phoenix Sukhoi and a World Models Ultimate I was building. Their paint schemes weren't in G3. So I took about a half hour and painted them into the sim. It's BIG TIME kewl to fly your real models in the sim. And PSP did the job easily.