Designing Appearal

I was looking at the templates and reading some documentation on it for designing clothes. I understand how to make seamless textures in Photoshop. From what I read I have to line up my seams based on the overlay lines/guides in the templates (for example, where the line on front of the leg meets the line on the back of the leg). Now in Photoshop there is a tool called Offset and Rubber Stamping which makes removing seams pretty easy but is there any kind of tricks to getting seams lined in the actual templates? I mean, do I have to warp the texture to go along with the guides in the template or what?

I use Photoshop CS by the way and pretty familar with the program and could always like to learn additional tips and tricks on this stuff.

Thanks all! ^^

How you approach it depends a lot on whether you're doing photosourced clothing or painting, or some combination of both. A good way to work with seams is to first get your details close to where they need to be match across a seam by eye (using the color coded edge guide and grid lines). From there the liquify filter is your friend. You can use it to move parts of the texture around to fine tune it. Usually it ends up being a matter of going back and forth between PS and SL (or Poser, or Tattoo for offline previewing), doing a few rounds of tweaks. Tattoo can be very handy for doing some final seam touchup directly on an avatar model.

Liquify is a pretty excellent tool. Thanks for the tip Chip! ^^

Does anyone know about the ease of implementing SL template designs onto a Poser figure? Is it pretty easy process or does it require quite a bit of customization?

Just download the SL mannequins from the downloads section of the website. The zip file includes figures for Poser

curious.... where do you extract those files chip?

There's a readme file in the zip that tells you how to get them installed in Poser It's pretty easy.

Ok cool i will look into it Thank you

Hey Chip, I don't know if you're familiar with GIMP, but if so, is there a tool similar to Liquify? I haven't found anything like that, and that sounds sooo much easier than actually removing details and adding them back in manually.

I don't think it does, Jonquille, but I've never used it so I'm not sure. If it supports ps plugins there might be something out there you can use... I think kais used to have a plugin similar to liquify called Power Goo or somesuch.