Faylen's Clothing Recolor Tutorial Part 3: Adding Textures

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#26

3rd Feb 2005 at 5:05 PM

Thank you much. Its pretty east once you get the hang of it.

Cant wait for a new TUT.

~Craig

DUfire

Test Subject

#27

4th Feb 2005 at 1:42 AM

Thanks for the TUT. Works for me!

DUfire out!

Jen75

Test Subject

#28

5th Feb 2005 at 5:53 AM

Thank you for the clothing tutorials. They were very helpful and the best I have ever used and easy to follow. I'm still having trouble with Part 3, but I will keep trying.

Thank you again.

SwampMama

Lab Assistant

#29

18th Feb 2005 at 4:24 PM

Thanks so much for all 3 turorials it helped me to learn photoshop & how things work. The game will never be the same for me.
Thank-you

angelmarie123

Field Researcher

#30

19th Feb 2005 at 8:38 PM

thanks so much...you have shown me a better, faster, and neater way to make clothes

Amorine

Test Subject

#31

3rd Mar 2005 at 3:29 PM

These tutorials are amazing, thank you so much! I'm a complete ditz when it comes to Photoshop (or any other paint/photo program, for that matter) and I've just done my first basic recolour from your first tutorial...yipee!!! I'm off to try this one now. It'll probably take the rest of the day

But at least I can follow your tutorials, which is progress in itself LOL. If I can do this, I'll be forever grateful. Thank you!!!!

Faylen

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#32

14th Mar 2005 at 1:14 AM

I'm glad to hear all the comments on the tutorials - good or bad. Please feel free to go to the skinning forum if you have questions or suggestions, too. You can even post pics of things you've made. I'd love to see!

"Living well is the best revenge. . ." George Bernard Shaw

lilfaye

Field Researcher

#33

15th Mar 2005 at 4:53 PM

This is wonderful, I knew how to recolour, but with this tut I feel more comfortable adding textures to my clothes now

Thanks!

Irken

Lab Assistant

#34

16th Mar 2005 at 6:34 PM

Thanks so much for taking the time to do this!! It is very much appreciated!

blu_berri_babe

Lab Assistant

#35

18th Mar 2005 at 2:50 PM

great tutorial, as usual!!

Mnemosyne

Test Subject

#36

18th Mar 2005 at 3:09 PM

Thank you! I'm just learning, and this and the other tutorials on this site have been very helpful.

opiumgirl

Field Researcher

#37

29th Mar 2005 at 2:10 PM

thanks for the great tutorial-I never knew I was taking the long way in adding textures, yours look much better than mine too - it's those transparancies- all my clothes looked like it was bleached. great help, thanks

Tazzianna

Lab Assistant

#38

1st Apr 2005 at 8:15 PM

All this time I've been wondering what the secret was to adding textures without losing the details beneath them... thank you for this tutorial! I'm going to go try out the new layer/opacity.

HCAC

Theorist

#39

18th Apr 2005 at 2:55 PM

Can I add if you want fabric swatch pictures, go to www.fabric.com? I actually order my (real world) fabric from them and they have a lot of great pictures. I am not sure how great they are for skinning, but they have a lot of choices. Hope this helps!

Faylen

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#40

18th Apr 2005 at 3:11 PM

Fabric websites are great for textures, but they have to have nice, flat, undistorted swatches with a repeat of the pattern in the swatch. You might be suprised to find, too, that metal and plastics manufacturing sites have some interesting textures, as well! All you need to do is colorize!

If you want to search for textures, go to google.com and pick "image search". Type in stuff like "paisley swatch" or "plaid red" something that would indicate a print of a pattern, and start looking. Often, this will lead you to pages that have other useable textures as well.

"Living well is the best revenge. . ." George Bernard Shaw

puppy45341

Lab Assistant

#41

20th Apr 2005 at 3:30 AM

this is absolutaly excellent!!! i actually can make my own clothes line now...lol

lilbaby1313

Lab Assistant

#42

21st Apr 2005 at 2:25 AM

Um...I need some help here... I don't have photoshop, I have windows XP :fallen: :lonely:

Faylen

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#43

21st Apr 2005 at 2:24 PM

Photoshop is an image editing software. It's on the pricey side, but you can look around for older versions on sale secondhand, or you cna check for other, less expensive programs. I believe some people like Gimp, which I understand is free, and can be downloaded from the web, but if you have questions on how to use it, I won't be able to help you there.

"Living well is the best revenge. . ." George Bernard Shaw

lilbaby1313

Lab Assistant

#44

22nd Apr 2005 at 2:35 AM

When you say Pricey, how much are we talking here?

Faylen

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#45

22nd Apr 2005 at 2:40 AM

New, it's about $600 - you can find used copies, and if you're a student you can get discounted copies through your school.

"Living well is the best revenge. . ." George Bernard Shaw

lilbaby1313

Lab Assistant

#46

23rd Apr 2005 at 4:11 AM Last edited by lilbaby1313 : 23rd Apr 2005 at 4:21 AM.

:argh: That is alot! I'm downloading GIMP at the moment! :banned:

pinksalamander

Test Subject

#47

24th Apr 2005 at 8:27 PM

Well, lets just say, you COMPLETLEY lost me at step 19. Im lost. Very lost. In a huge maze. With man eating crocodiles chasing me. Any help?

I don't get the bit about the triangles. And how do you get the shading right? so i've done all the grayscale and brightness. I pasted in one sleeve shape, perfect, now how do i get it all to look all shadingy (<-- very technical terms, i know) without it all being one huge block colour?> How do i get the pattern to have all the same shadowy bits as the real pj top?

Faylen

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Original Poster

#48

24th Apr 2005 at 10:13 PM

When you paste your texture, or paste into, it lays over your image completely. It's opaque. What you're doing after you've pasted your texture into each section of the outfit is reduce the opacity. If you click on the pictures online, or print out the tute, you'll see my lines and circles and arrows showing where that slider is on the right to adjust the opacity. When you reduce the opacity, the original shading actually shows through. You flatten the image, merging the texture and the grayscale image, then fix your color back up.

"Living well is the best revenge. . ." George Bernard Shaw

pinksalamander

Test Subject

#49

25th Apr 2005 at 8:51 AM

Ahh now i understand, (and i know about the opacity tool), but it goes weird colours. How to get get the colour back?

Faylen

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#50

26th Apr 2005 at 12:03 AM

You know, tutorials for this stuff can get pretty involved - you should read through them a time or two and then still follow them as you go. . .You adjust your hue/saturation, and brightness/contrast (if necessary) to bring back the original color.

"Living well is the best revenge. . ." George Bernard Shaw

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