Clothes - Done, But how to make a Skin?

I’ve checked out Robins and Chips excellent clothing templates and from a load of info I’ve gleaned from these Forums I’ve actually made some clothes.

But how do you actually make a skin? I tried to make one by cutting the templates up and joining them together. When I was happy with the result (It actually looked pretty bad, but I’m still experimenting) I cut the ‘skin’ image up and put it back to it’s component templates and uploaded them to SL.

When I clicked on skin in the ‘Adjust Appearance’ tab, I couldn’t find a button saying ‘Make new Skin’

I’ve assumed you do this much the same way as you would when making a new shirt.

Something tells me I’m way off the mark.

Please can some one help? Is there an all in one skin Template I haven’t found? Or can some one provide a ling to a skin Jpeg as a learning example please?

Find a skin with modify permisions in your library and put that on. Go into appearance and click skin. You will see windows for the three textures. Click each of them one at a time and select your skin textures. Save as and name your skin and you will have your skin with your textures as an item in your inventory.

Aw… that’s how you do it, it seems so simple now you’ve pointed it out I was pulling my hair out before, Thanks very much Syliva

So… I was right about using the templates stuck together. Is this the accepted way of making a skin in PS ? to be frank my attempts so far are awful, does anyone have any examples I can learn from please?

Find the character folder in your SL install and look at the tga files in there. These are the files used to make the default SL skin. The will help you with shading and where to place toes, shoulder blades and such. Skins are challenging.

Thanks again Sylvia,

Bloody right skins are challenging, so far my attempts look like a pink bit of wet kitchen towel with eyes!

OMG - that's the exact effect I've been looking for...

Cat x

another thing you can do so you do not over write an existing skin, therefor keeping the creators name and not putting your name.... is...

right click in inventory and choose create new skin
name it whatever you wish

wear it then edit that skin

once you create a skin you feel is worthy of selling, it will have you as the creator, and you will have total control of the settings on that skin (perms and such)