Help Creating Jeans!

I have been a designer in sl for quite a while now and the only thing I can't seem to figure out is how to make a really good pair of jeans...any tip or help someone can give me would be greatly appreciated: )

I tried using this tutorial from http://mistressofdesign.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/denim-jeans-tutorial-using-the-gimp/ It's a good tutorial if you can get past the tools that are not in Photoshop.

Good luck with the jeans venture and when you get your skills honed how about lashing up a pair with oil stains and stuff on them as well as some nice holes and rips.

I'll buy a pair.

hehe you should check out the jeans at Eww! Not sure where their mainstore is but the have a shop at Floating Comet Mall, I lol every time I go in there

And you were keeping this to yourself, young lady? Hrmph!

oops so sorry Amar Hun, i thought I'd mentioned it before obviously i have not. So sorry *shrinks in her chair feeling a little ashamed*

Well since we are talking about that tutorial... It looks like an easy to follow tutorial (I've been wanting to make jeans for ever!). But when I get this step:

"Step Three

Add a new transparent layer above, and fill the new layer with a scan line pattern (available here). The screen shot won’t show much, so I am not including one. The pattern is just a tiny repeating black diagonal line."

When I do what she says, it looks nothing like her pic, not even remotely close. What am I doing wrong? And for those who have GIMP and used this tutorial... how did you get past this part?

I do not use gimp, but I would say from her wording, that the file she has linked is a pattern file

now on PS you would just use the paint bucket and set it to pattern, then load that pattern in, and fill the area with the pattern

not sure how to do that on gimp as I do not use gimp

hope that helps

I had this problem to Ericka, in the end i looked onto Deviantart and got the scan line texture. The one on the page you can't use you need to get the one from Deviantart. I'll have a quick browse and find it for you

Ok found the pattern, all you have to do is download it from the website below and put it into Gimp. This is a gimp pattern and can only be used in that program unless anyone knows how to convert the pattern file?

http://fence-post.deviantart.com/art/Scanline-Pattern-39512748

Goodluck Everyone

i use gimp and have gotten past all that be very careful when picking your map. and do as it says play with the settings, the thing i find is that it looks ok on my PC but once uploaded the scan lines are way to big. makes it look more like carpeting then jean material please see the picture

I'm not sure why it did that Billy, i never had any problems with the scan lines.

Has often been mentioned before i got my new pc that my graphics card caused masses of problems with clothing creation. Could it be that?

Thanks! I'll try that out tomorrow and see what happens!

Update:

It works!!! All you have to do is open the downloaded file and open the scanline then copy. Go into the jeans pic, make your transparent layer then go to edit paste as new layer. You'll go through the steps to make a new pattern then when you have the bucket selected go to your tools and click "fill with pattern"

now click in your jeans pattern and there you go!

no i dont thinkits that ive talked with someone else there texture came out the same way looks more like cordaroys if you ask me. also ive done this on 2 diff PC's

Sorry i did not get back to you, my new pc broke down yet again and needed fixing so i've been using my old PC and it's not the best quality so i wanted to wait for my new pc to be fixed before checking them.

Well then i really don't know what could be the cause, let me have a go later at making the texture and i'll see what mine looks like for you.

If the weave in the fabric is too big why not create your own pattern, by copying/pasting smaller versions of it repeatedly? (Into a blank file and save as new pattern.) Would that work? Assuming you can get it all to line up, of course...

Or you could put the pattern into smaller areas on the jeans maybe? I did something like that once, making clothes for another game, and used the blur or clone tool where necessary to smooth out any edges so it didn't look too patchwork quilt-y.

I ran into the scan line issue last night as well. I placed the pattern in my pattern's folder as it was suggested by the person who created it at deviantart and still it didn't work. I tried copy and paste as was suggested and still no go. I finally gave up and went out and found a denim texture. Even though that shortened a lot of steps, it's still a lonnnng process and if Claire wasn't selling these as a dollarbee in her shop, I'd charge a gajeeelion dollars for them! When I finish them of course. Here's where I'm at so far. I actually had the pockets somewhat drawn in but my problem is getting rid of the stroke path thingys when I'm done stroking my stitches. I did it for the side seams but couldn't remember how to get rid of it on the pockets last night and thank goodness anyway cause they were meh...not so hot. I'm glad that I hadn't saved at that point!

It's an AWESOME set of tutorials! I use GIMP exclusively..gah..didn't know there were so many steps to creating clothing..lol. I've made clothing in world, but could never get more effects, except via textures I bought in world. I'd recommend these to any GIMP user, for sure!