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help: need to find fabric tutorials for Photoshop
Yuriko Muromachi
Blue Summer
Join date: 4 Jul 2005
Posts: 385
11-13-2005 00:40
Is there a tutorial here that teaches you how to make cloth fabrics (like silk, satin, velvet, velveeteen, leather, jeans, cotton, knit etc) from scratch using Photoshop CS2? In clothes making, the most tedious part for me isn't putting the outfit together but hunting the right fabrics (>_<;) makes me want to just make my own but how?
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http://velvetroom.wordpress.com
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Kenzington Fairlight
Surrogate
Join date: 9 Jun 2003
Posts: 139
11-13-2005 05:47
as useless as it is otherwise, eye candy actually has a few filters that you can combine with noise and some other PS effects to come out with some decent fabrics. i would recomend looking at fabrics from some clothing sites (www.revolveclothing.com) and just doing your best to copy them with photoshop. Keep things like transparency of fabric in mind. and sometimes just a subtle effect is all it will take to make it look right. so yeah, just mess around :) it's part of the "fun"!
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Yuriko Muromachi
Blue Summer
Join date: 4 Jul 2005
Posts: 385
11-13-2005 15:17
thanks. I'll try and do my best and see what comes up. *lol*
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http://velvetroom.wordpress.com
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Ghanie Lane
Registered User
Join date: 20 Feb 2007
Posts: 58
05-18-2007 11:09
Google has done wonders in finding tutorials on various fabric effects. Although I have yet to find something that can actually come up with velvet. Anything close doesn't translate well once uploaded into SL.

Does anyone know of a good velvet tutorial?
Arikinui Adria
Elucidated Deviant
Join date: 18 Aug 2006
Posts: 592
05-18-2007 12:10
http://www.rnel.net/

This site has some interesting fabric tutorials.

To make velvet, I use the Fancy Fabric Brushes from www.obsidiandawn.com. The exact ones I believe are the Sequin brushes...then follow these steps:

-New layer, fill with darkish color (this is the base of your fabric)
-New layer, Blending Mode: Color Burn or Multiply (Whichever gives you the truest of shadows for that fabric color)
-Sequin brush, color 50% gray go over the areas where you would like the shadows to be. Use dabbing movements as if you were creating dots.
-If the edges are too sharp where you "dabbed" simply apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur very lightly.
-For highlights: new layer, overlay and use the same brush with white or 2-3% gray (lower the opacity if the high lights are too bright)

For added depth you can use this brush on a mask over the high lights or shadow.

For wrinkles...use the usual method then mask and use the sequin brush and hit it with a bit of Gaussian Blur for a softer effect.

There may be a simpler way to do this...but I love the results I get using this method.

Best,
~Ari
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