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Second Life Clothing Tutorial 101
Basic Clothing Design Templates
Basic clothing can be made using any texture you find in Second Life. Unfortunately, some textures don't look that great on certain bodies. Below are a few links to some templates that will make creating your own textures for clothing a snap!NOTE: Each of these templates are for the smallest size avatar available. To make simple clothing textures that actually fit on larger shaped avatars you will need to upload a .tga file of the particular body template you want to work with and apply it as a tattoo. Once you have the template on your avatar take several pictures from various angles around your avatar so you can properly tell how the lines end up distorting on the larger shape. This is the only way to eliminate the "Stretching" of textures in Second Life when clothing is worn by larger avatars.
512 based template- Simple, 1-Layer jpg's for uploading and applying to your avatar so you can properly align the clothing texture to your desired shape and size.
All Fashion Design Templates- Simple to use templates for all the various clothing for Second Life avatars.
CMFF Master Templates - High quality Photoshop templates by Chip Midnight, which use multiple layers for better pin-point accuracy.
Hair Template- Hair template for creating your own hair templates in Second Life.
Click here for detailed instructions on how to use these templates to create your own clothing.
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No cost way of checking your textures!
Once you've made all the final changes to your clothing texture, save it as 24 bit .tga and open Second Life. At the top of Second Life click File and select Upload an image. From here you can examine your texture "BEFORE" you actually pay to upload it. Using the camera controls, examine every seam of the texture to make sure every thing is straight and lined up properly. If you need to correct something just click cancel. Otherwise, click Ok and upload it. Only when you click Ok will you be charged the upload fees, so if your texture needs changes just click cancel and save your lindens. The only guide to Second Life you will ever need!
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Boots and Shoes Made Simple!
Using one of the templates from tutorial 101, open the lower template in your image editor. For shoes simply create your textures over the foot top and bottom areas of the template. For boots you will also need to create textures at the bottom of the legs.NOTE!!! Take your time and make sure that the texture on the bottom of the legs lines up with the texture in the middle of the foot top area. Otherwise, any lines or other marks will not line up at all. Take a quick look back at Tutorial 102 for a no cost way of checking your clothing before you pay to upload it into Second Life.
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How to make clothing textures with transparencies...
Once you have your texture completed you can make it a transparency in Photoshop by selecting the "Magic Wand" tool and clicking any where there isn't a texture. This should select all of the empty area. If so, click Select at the top and then click Select Inverse. This should change the selection to just your textured areas. If so, click Select again then click Save Selection. This will open the Save Selection menu where you can name the selection. Name it and click Ok. Open the Layers menu and click the Channels tab at the top of the menu. You should see your selections name in the list. Click the "Eye" button next to it and your transparency should show up properly. Click the Layers tab again to return to normal editing mode, then save the file as a 32-bit .tga image. Once saved simply upload the texture to Second Life and confirm the transparency is set properly. Starting a business in Second Life?
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You Tube Photoshop Video Training Tutorials
Free Photoshop video training tutorial - How to set up your environment for better image editing
Creating textures for Second Life can be tough if you don't know how to use Photoshop. Here's a video concerning how to set up your environment so you get better results. Check it out!
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Learn more by taking classes on how to make clothes in Second Life
There are a number of colleges set up in Second Life where you can learn more about making things. While logged on to Second Life click the Search button at the bottom of the Second Life User Interface. Once the search window opens click the Events tab at the top. This should open the Event search section. In this section click the "Drag Down" box and select Education from the list. Make sure the "Mature" check box is checked and click Search. Over to the left it should pull up a list of all the classes currently being offered in Second Life. If you want to learn how to do something that isn't offered in this list please feel free to stop by Loadstorm Studios and set up an appointment for one of our private, one-on-one, training courses. Mention this website to receive 10% off the cost of our training courses. Second Life Clothing Tutorial 106
Making your own skins using Photoshop
It's easy to tell the noobs in a crowd simply by the default skin they are wearing. Skins come in an assortment of shapes and styles so if you have Photoshop and have some free time you can make your own unique skin! Below is a link to an explaination as to how to make custom avatar skins using a free set of brushes you can use to achieve a more life like skin. Who knows, perhaps you are really good with Photoshop and can make a whole new selection of skins you can sell on Second Life.
Here's the Second Life Skins link.
Here's the Second Life Skins link.
Read and Learn!
Read and learn how to use your software better!
Reading one of the following books will teach you all the tricks you need to know to use Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro to create professional looking clothing textures with ease! Pick up one today and you'll thank me for all the knowledge these fine books have to offer!
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Photoshop Tutorials
To get the best looking clothing in Second Life you really need to know how to use your image editor in order to achieve the best results. So since there has been so many of you requesting me for Photoshop tutorials I am making a new site for them, as well as posting a link here for some Photoshop video tutorials everyone might be interested in getting.
Here's the Photoshop Tutorials link! Be sure to check out the bundle package as its an awesome deal for all that you can learn from watching the video tutorials!
Here's the Photoshop Tutorials link! Be sure to check out the bundle package as its an awesome deal for all that you can learn from watching the video tutorials!
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Where to learn more about Second Life...
There are alot of colleges now in Second Life which all provide different levels of training. Building, texturing, sculpting, scripting, animations, gestures, and clothing classes are all offered in Second Life, so seeking a college out to learn more about a particular subject is a very wise choice you can make in Second Life. While in the game you can visit the TUi Campus, ASL Colorado Tech, NCI Campus at Fishermans Cove, Mystical Mastery's Learning Center at Mystica, or even at College of Second Knowledge to get more information concerning the classes each of these locations have to offer. Attend a class today, and start learning more than just clothing design! Great Clothing From Great Software!
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I use Photoshop nearly every day to make just about anything I need for graphics and I suggest you look into getting a copy of it as it makes textures for Second Life a breeze!
Paint Shop Pro is the only other paint program I would suggest using to make Second Life textures as its just as useful as Photoshop, but at a fraction of a cost!
Paint Shop Pro is the only other paint program I would suggest using to make Second Life textures as its just as useful as Photoshop, but at a fraction of a cost!
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Learning by Example...
Ok, so you got the templates, and you feel comfortable using Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro to work with those templates... Looks like a good time for an example! ;)
Here's a link to a zip file full of some example clothing you can make for Second Life using Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. Free Second Life Clothing Example Textures provided by the Lindens from Second Life.
Take a quick look at each texture taking note of how they are laid out in the image. Keep this layout in mind when you start developing your own clothing as it will save you alot of headaches when you first start uploading your clothes into Second Life. Make sure you refer to tutorial 102 for a no cost way of checking your clothing before paying the $10L to upload them into Second Life.
Here's a link to a zip file full of some example clothing you can make for Second Life using Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. Free Second Life Clothing Example Textures provided by the Lindens from Second Life.
Take a quick look at each texture taking note of how they are laid out in the image. Keep this layout in mind when you start developing your own clothing as it will save you alot of headaches when you first start uploading your clothes into Second Life. Make sure you refer to tutorial 102 for a no cost way of checking your clothing before paying the $10L to upload them into Second Life.
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Bringing it all together on your own site!
Once you have several sets of clothes made, your best bet is to set up a website to show off your creations! Adobe has produced software that covers every aspect of web design in their Creative Suite 3 Master Collection. Express your ideas in print, on the web, in film and video, and on mobile devices!It takes great software to create eye-catching sites, ads, and graphics to show off your creations. Adobe's software makes it simple to bring all aspects of your clothing career together forming the solid foundation needed to successfully compete in the clothing industry here in Second Life.
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Using Gimp to make clothing in Second Life
I've never used Gimp before, so I decided to try and find a good tutorial for making Second Life clothing using Gimp for those of you interested in how to do it. Unfortunately, there wasn't much out there until I stumbled upon this following site. Mermaid Diaries Clothing Tutorial
I downloaded Gimp and worked thru the tutorial fairly quickly. It covered how to use layers, how to save the file as a targa, and a few other examples of the Gimp interface so I decided to include a link to it here in my lens. Hope this helps out those looking to make clothing for Second Life using Gimp.
I downloaded Gimp and worked thru the tutorial fairly quickly. It covered how to use layers, how to save the file as a targa, and a few other examples of the Gimp interface so I decided to include a link to it here in my lens. Hope this helps out those looking to make clothing for Second Life using Gimp.
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Show off your clothing creations on a website to generate better sales...
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Second Life Clothing Tutorials found on Google Blogs!
Check out what other tutorials have to offer!
Second Life is full of things to do so why not check out what others have blogged about doing? Here's just a few of the top ranked blogs with tons of information concerning Second Life Clothing Tutorials...
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I've also posted a blog about how toys from China are being sold at McDonalds and some of the dangers surrounding those toys on my blog as well.
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I've also posted a blog about how toys from China are being sold at McDonalds and some of the dangers surrounding those toys on my blog as well.
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Second Life Clothing Tutorials Guestbook
Here what others are saying about our great tips!
LoadstormStudios wrote...
in reply to Shania Singh I've never used Gimp before, so I just added a link to a site that has a decent tutorial for it.
Posted November 10, 2008
Lensmaster
Shania Singh wrote
I have heard that Photoshop 7 is not useable for designing clothes (alpha channel?) therefore I downloaded gimp ... I must admit I am not familiar with neither of them....
can you provide information on designing with gimp?
Thanks
Posted April 09, 2008
Lensmaster
Sugar Fox wrote
Love the templates make all my Sl clothing for MY store . Ty Chip for making them and give them to anyone to use.
Posted March 22, 2008
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