Frustration

I have been doing my own skins for over a month now. I am not a photoshop newbie and have had some success with the ones I carefully painted using many of the resources I ferreted out here... thanks to everyone.

At the first of August I started making modifyable skins. What was once a relatively pain free process of seleting from column a b c etc... I am ready to tear my freeking hair out or detatch it... whatever.

What has me in a tixxy is that the legs portion of my semi transparent skins show a distinct line and the carefully worked out noise-blur I put on my base skin (it is exactly the same on all three pieces) ends up looking flat and there is a distinct line at the waist even though I have lined them up and carefully blended... buffed.. etc.

Another pain is that the belly button on the new skin is NOT where it is supposed to be on the template. For hours I thought I had a belly button ring that had dispeared into myself until I freaking moved my carefully rendered belly button down and to the left. I suppose I could mask it with a non transparent alpha but I am trying to sort out why things are coming in different.

So... if any of you more experienced skin designers have any wisdom to share with me... I will be eternally grateful.

Mel Brown

Ok... I dug back into my inventory for one of the first skins I did... which was around the first of June. This one does have the belly button either absent or in the right place and there is no "ring around the nipples*. However, I sitll have the matching problem between the upper and lower and the lack of texture on the legs.

Again I am asking if anyone has had this problem and if they have a formula for matching between the upper and the lower.

Oh.. this may have something do do with it... but if I take a completely SL skin and apply freckles to it. They only appear on the torso and the head.

GRUMBLE