Please Somone Get In On This Subject I Need Ya

Okay I Am Trying To Make Skins In Secondlife And Ive Been To Youtube And Searched For Tutorials On This Subject Also.

I Did Go To Olivia's Second Life Website With The Tutorial On How To Make Skin But Thats Basic And Its Not Helping Me Cause Like It Does Not Show How The Eye Brows Are Made And The Lips Etc. And I'm Trying To Make Actors And Celebrities Skin Etc. So I Need A Tutorial Thats Straight To The Point Or Maybe Some One In This Forum Can Give Me The Best Step By Step Tutorial This Has Been On My Mind For Years And I Still Have Not Learned This And Its A Huge Market In Sl I Need To Get My Hands In This Skin Game. Please Help The Best You Can

Here's a good place to start: /109/e1/246059/1.html

This isn't a SL related site, but it is an artist resource for making 3D avatars.

http://www.renderosity.com/

I have noticed that a majority of your threads often have the same ilk - you want to take copyrighted content from RL and sell it here. I hope you have a really great lawyer friend because you are going to need it if you do start creating Nike knock-offs with their logo and Celebrity Skins. Why not just create your own stuff? There is already a plethora of knock-offs and celebrity skins in SL and those people either have the permission or they are going through some problems right now because of DMCA take-down notices and RL court subpoenas. Do yourself a favor and stick to the straight and narrow, don't do a knock off and don't use copyrighted images or logos or photos or celebrities. You will thank me later for it. If you do choose to go this route - I and so many others in your other threads have warned you. Best of luck to you and I hope that the next thread you start will have a better theme.

/me imagines a very very shiny shift key. (O_O)

A good place for editable skin files is here >> http://eloheliot.blogspot.com/ << Because blog offers PSD file that include template guides, most all the shaders and details in separate layers. And they're rather attractive skins to begin with. (^_^)

I have two of my own versions of the Re skin for my two avatar sizes. If you ever see me inworld, you'd know I wear them proudly. (^_^)

As for the "celebrities skins" idea... Be careful where you source your graphics from... LL is getting serious about DMCA and you may find yorself getting textures blacklisted quite quickly. (=_=)y

How many times are you going to ask the same exact question?

Imani, the 'big secret' is hard work. The greatest secret is that there is no secret.

Between Olila, Chip Midnight, Robin Wood, Eloh Eliot and Natalia, all the information you need to paint clothes or skins on Second Life avatars is out there. (I am certain there are others, those are the ones I've encountered so far who have been the most help to me.)

You paint the lips on the part of Chip's or Robin's (or Linden Lab's) template that's labelled 'lips'. You paint the eyebrows somewhere in the vicinity of the area above the eye. You paint the cheeks somewhere around the cheekbone area. You put fingernails on the hands.

Exactly HOW you paint them, and exactly what colour(s) and what tools you use to paint them, is where art comes in. That's what distinguishes my work from yours, and from Cristalle's, Imnotgoing's, Sioxie's, Atom's or Chosen's.

If you want to, you can paint it all with a 5-wide circular paintbrush in an old graphics program from the 1980s. Or you can use the most sophisticated tools in the most professional, expensive version of CorelDraw or Photoshop currently available. But that's part of the art - choosing your tools. (I don't recommend using a 5-wide circular paintbrush for the whole thing, though.)

Now, if what you need is art techniques - ideas, techniques, and design theory that will help you paint better - then I can cheerfully recommend your local library, or any art-training site on the Internet.

But if one of us were to write a tutorial saying 'use the spraypaint tool on these exact settings in this exact location and with RGB settings 123 456 789, and make sure you paint only from the pixels in locations 300 to 350 X, 200 to 250 Y' ... well, we wouldn't be teaching you how to design skins, we'd be teaching you how to follow directions.

Skin or clothing making isn't the easy way to riches, either in Lindens or in dollars. It requires an understanding of art and design theory and practice. If you don't have it, you're going to need to get it to make a success of your skin business.