Poster Question

Hello,

I've been making alot of clothes recently - credit to the tutorials and help on the forums for getting me by.

I am looking to open a shop and want to have posters on the wall, my question is how do I do that? Is there a tutorial for making posters / pictures / framed pictures. I'm using Photoshop for my clothes. Any help would be greatly appreciated

You simply create the poster in PS or whatever graphical program you use...with the largest dimension being 512, upload that as a .tga file to SL....and stick it on a prim that is the same dimensions as your original artwork.

If you want it to be a poster...a piece of paper, you'll want to find a 'transparent' texture, texture the whole prim, then use 'texture select' and select only the front face with the graphic.

However...there's always something to consider. Do you want a boring 2d poster like everyone else, or do you want something 3d? Personally, I use two prims per advertisement/poster/product POS...one for the artwork which sits an a picture frame style thing, and one for the shadow it casts...this looks much better than the standard 2d picture paste...

Or you can make your prim tapered in, which replicates a frame, using only one prim.

3D, 3 prim:



2D/3D, 1 prim & 2 prim examples



Adding shadows to your build/vendor/store will greatly increase the realism, dynamic flow, and depth. Now, if you have dozens of products to put up in a 30 prim only vendor...then fine, use 2d only. But if you just can't use a 2nd prim for the shadow, at least try to make your signs 3 dimensional by designing a mock-frame in your graphical program--and add some glare to the frame for an even more realistic look. (making your frame in a seperate layer, and adding a slight inner shadow works wonders for faking 3d) As seen below:

2 Prim, w/ shadow, and 2d faked 3d frame.

thanks alot for you help - I agree the 3d 3 prim looks better