An Intermediate Tutorial on Second Life Clothes Making The Polo Shirt

I have made a web page of my intermediate tutorial on making clothes in Second Life. It includes all of the text from my previous post along with the Photoshop screen shots.

I hope it proves helpful.

Jen

It can be found here:

http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-SecLife

Thanks, Jennifer The polo looks good, I'm going to try it today. I suspect it would have been very hard and long to find out how to make a collar by myself.

This forum is a gold mine!

PS: I have a problem seeing your web page: the images overlap with the text. I'm using Opera.

PS of the PS: Hello everyone! *waves* I've started reading that forum a couple of weeks ago, and you guys helped me immensely. I'm using a combination of Chip's and Robin's templates, and have read most of the tutorials. Thanks to all of you, I've actually been able to make some clothes! So my first post is for you.

Thank you Raindrop for the compliment. I checked the site with two computers using Mozilla and Explorer, both of then looked fine to me? If you send me an email address via Private Messages, I will send you a PDF copy.

Jen

Your website is bookmarked now. A really, really useful tutorial as always

PS: do you have a tip-jar inworld? I'd love to make a donation.

Thanks for the offer, but don't worry I've since looked the page with Firefox, and it works all right.

Thanks for the offer Kumi, that is sweet of you. However, I don't have a tip-jar. If anyone wants to donate, make a donation to the Shelter or New Citizens, Inc. Both of those organizations do far more to help than I. They can always use donations.

Jen

Great looking tutorial, Jennifer!

Thank you Chip!

You have just made my entire day.

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Jennifer:

Thanks for an incredible tutorial. I'd like to make one suggestion, though: Could you link to larger images so that we can see more detail of the actions you're describing in the text? It would help specifically with the shading, as well as the M&S activities that you mention in the tutorial.

Thank you so much for your generosity in providing this!

Aenea

That is a good idea Aenea. I will look into it when I get an opportunity.

Thanks,

Jen

I have updated the pictures in the tutorial as requested. Clicking on the photo will now open the full size version of the picture. This should help those who might want to see more details.

Thanks to Chosen and Eloise for helping me figure out how to do it.

Here is the url: http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-SecLife

Jen

Where can I get Chip's shading guide?

Auryn, it is part of Chip's templates. He has some basic shading in the template.

Jen

Hi Jen -- Your tutorial (along with the others I am gradually finding) is a great help! I'm the in-world rep for a real-world casual fashions studio -- we've got hundreds of designs for casual tops, most of them humorous, aimed at intelligent gals (and the guys who want to be with them). Along with learning about SL and meeting all you fabulous designers and graphic experts, I'm charged with figuring out how to show our many designs, how to distribute funny freebies, with staging events, getting feedback, and, well, you can imagine what all is involved.

I wonder if there is a place or page where I can post offers for designer and graphics implementation help? We're a fun group, and think maybe some 2L designer/fashion/event experts would like to look us over or contribute, but we are also on the web for a decade, and don't want to let our commercial activities interfere with 2L standards and community conventions. So I'm a bit apprehensive about "advertising" for possible team members and contributors.

Anyway, thanks again for *really* speeding up our efforts. Just as soon as we get goin', I'll be sure to post it in the appropriate forum.

Katya

Thank you so much for the compliment, Katya. I am glad I was able to help you. I am not sure I understand what it is you are looking for? It sounds like you want help from the designer community but don’t want to get TOO close. LOL

Several of the big designers read and contribute to this forum. Maybe they will see this and help. You might want to just post a thread in the D&T forum. If the moderator thinks it doesn’t apply, it will be moved to the appropriate thread.

You might also want to contact Linden Labs? I know a Linden who is in their marketing department. She may be able to help you. You can send me an IM in-world. If I am not on, it will go to my email.

Lastly, Aimee Weber, who is a major designer and the owner of Preen, works with RL companies in SL. She may be able to help you?

I hope this helps you. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Jen

You dont discribe how to make wrinkles =\

I've close-to-mastered making my own clothes, alphas, and whatnot, thanks to the tutorials and posts of Robin Sojourner, Chip Midnight, and Jennifer McLuhan. (Earnest thanks!)

But there's something I don't know how to do, and I don't know if it can be done. Perhaps I don't know the right technical terms to find it.

I want to have (for example) a Tshirt with a logo/design on it, and mask the logo somehow so that the user can change the "fabric" color of the shirt without also tinting the logo.

A Second Life logo shirt would thus have the green hand on white to start, and the user could, using the usual appearance window color picker, change the shirt color to red, but the hand would still show as green, not brown.

Can it be done?

I would think the only way that could be done is to make two items... an undershirt which is a solid color and modable and then a shirt layer that has the text. But there are others far more experienced than I that might have a better answer.

*** EDIT ***
thought I should clarify... the shirt to be the words and the rest alpha and the undershirt just the moddable color.

That's an excellent idea! (Ideally, it would be in just one layer, but I realize this may not be possible. The two-layers idea will accomplish it very well.)

Hi Jen,
Will you make a video about your tutorial? I'm pretty new on pohotoshop and clothing. I couldn't make the "path" section. Mine looked all white.
A video or more step-by-step screenshots would be so good for me and the newbies like me.
Thanks...

This is a great tutorial! Where did you find the templates?