How to photo source?

Hello, I would like to make a clothing using a digital picture I made from a rl clothe as texture. But this picture is much bigger than the sl template for clothes and when I scale it down to match the size of the template, the pic has lost all detail. What am i doing wrong?

maybe nothing. I am not an expert, I just try to help, but perhaps this would work...

Scale the template up, rather than the image down. Then, work on your shading, transforming, wrinkling, aligning, etc.

At the end, scale it back down, using what the best rescaling is, e.g., bi-cubic or better.

Question for others...can clothing be at different resolutions?

Depending on the fabric you took pictures of you will lose varying degrees of texture as you scale it down. This is because as you make an image smaller the software will take a group of pixels and through a mathematical analysis will eliminate some and come up with a calculated version. Ever take a picture make it really small and then resze it back up again? Notice how blocky it is now? Same reason, you lose fine details on resizing.

Unless you upload all your textures at 1024 x 1024 (which I do not advise) you are going to have to compensate for the loss of texture by resizing. You may want to start with the texture being a percentage larger than the template instead of 1:1 and then scale down.

Just have to play with it.

Take a few more pictures of your chosen cloth texture but stand further away from it.
Also you can reduce the size of the picture being taken on your digital camera.

This way your texture grain size will be smaller naturally.

This is better yes, thank you

Lee, it seems that clothing textures can no longer be different sizes.

No matter what size the images are when you upload them, all images used on the AV are now reset (as I understand it,) so that they are 512x512 pixels.

That doesn't apply to images used on the prim portions of clothing, of course. Those are still entirely in the control of the designer, and can be as large as 1024x1024. (Which doesn't make using such large textures on clothing a good idea. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. )

yeah, like others have said, start with larger template, then shrink down to 512 using Bicubic Sharper, then (if you have Photoshop) do a smart sharpen before you save it. Don't oversharpen, just enough so you can pick out the weave texture etc.