Getting the gathered or ruffled look on fabric

I am new to SL and beginning to work with prims. I have made a flexi curtain set.

What I need to do is to make the fabric look gathered instead of a flat piece of fabric.

Example:

A shower curtain that is open.

There are many, many techniques for creating a draped fabric look. As I often mention when this topic comes up, traditional artists spend their entire lives doing drapery studies, and have done so for centuries. If you're really serious about this, take some art classes. Being able to draw and paint drapery convincingly is one of the most crucial skills to develop as an artist.

That said, here's a quick Photoshop technique for very simple drapery. This should take you about 60 seconds if you move slowly:

1. Grab the Gradient tool. Set it for a solid black to white gradient, and set its mode to Difference. Set its opacity somewhere around 70 or 75% or so.

2. Click on the left side of the canvas, drag a short distance to the right, and let go.

3. Repeat step 2, this time starting a little bit to the right of where you started before, and also ending a little to the right of where you last ended. You want to overlap the strokes.

4. Continue with overlapping strokes until you make your way, little by little, all the way across the canvas. As you progress, you'll see a good approximation of wrinkled fabric beginning to emerge.

5. Now add some color. A simple way to do that is with a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. If you're using Photoshop CS4, this is now super quick to do, thanks to the new Adjustments panel. Simply click the Hue/Saturation button, and the adjustment layer will be created. The panel will change to show the Hue/Saturation sliders. Check the Colorize box at the bottom, and then simply slide the hue to whatever color you'd like to use. If you're using an older version of PS, it's still easy, just slightly more tedious. First you click the New Adjustment Layer button at the bottom of the Layers palette, choose Hue/Saturation from the list, and a dialog will pop up with the same sliders and the checkbox I just mentioned. The beauty of using adjustment layers is they're non-destructive. If you want to apply a different color to the same fabric later, simply select the adjustment layer, and move the Hue slider.

6. For added realisim, you can play around with various options such as using the Liquefy filter to pucker and bloat a few areas along the top of the canvas, to give the appearance of pleats, and you can add an alpha channel to cut some natural curves along the bottom, to preserve the illusion of perspective.

I don't have Photoshop I have Paint Pro Shop but i'll see what I can come up with.

It has been a while since I have use Paint Shop Pro but they do have similar features like gradient, layers, brushes, pencils. You can also draw out what you see on shower curtain too, use lines in different effects and reduce the opacity.