Clothing templates for people without Photoshop?

Hi, I was wondering whether there's a place where I can find clothing templates in a JPG, PNG, or something, anything other than Photoshop! lol I'm not about to spend tons of US dollars to earn a few Lindens... unless, of course, it turns into a full-time employment opportunity. I found a page on here that looked like it had some, but what I saw was a mess! I mean, red and green and blue nonsense, just splattered all over a 512x512 image file (I'm not sure what that was but it sure didn't come close to resembling a clothing template, lol). Any suggestions or ideas would be most appreciated.

Thanks.

What are you using now? You might try working with gimp, that's free and can read most Photoshop files well enough to work with them.

From your description of seeing "red and green and blue nonsense", I'm getting the feeling that you clicked on a link to a file that was attached here, using the forum's attachment option.

Those sometimes fail, and display as red and green and blue nonsense when you click on the link.

If that's what's happening, you should try a different source, such as the ones at http://secondlife.com/community/templates.php .

The usual choice for a not-free alternative to Photoshop is Paint Shop Pro.

Core's Photo-Paint will also work, although the Corel Graphic Suite, or whatever they call it now, costs more that Paint Shop Pro.

Serif's DrawPlus should work. I believe their free version of DrawPlus will work, if not, one of their pay-for versions will work.

For finding help info, tutorials, etc. specifically on clothesmaking for SL, Gimp or Paint Shop Pro would be the better alternatives.

Paint.net is a free program that might work.

http://www.robinwood.com/Catalog/Technical/SL-Tuts/SLPages/AVUVTemplates.html

Robin's templates come in JPG and PSD format. GIMP http://www.gimp.org/ can open the PSD files without any trouble. (^_^)y

In addition to the afrementioned GIMP, there are lots and lots and lots of programs out there that can read PSD files besides just Photoshop itself. Here are a few:

Paintshop Pro - In my opinion, this the best commercial raster editor on the market, for the money. It's not as good as Photoshop, of course, but at only $99, PSP is an absolute steal. It's quite powerful, and it reads and writes basic PSD's perfectly.

Paint.net - Can't argue with the price on this one. It's free. It will read basic PSD files with an optional plugin.

Photshop Elements - Don't let the name fool you. This isn't Photoshop. It's a separate program from Adobe, that happens to have a similar interface to Photoshop. That said, it will read PSD files just fine. It's $99.

ArtRage - It's meant for simulating natural media, so I wouldn't necessarily recommend it for photorealistic texturing. But if a more hand-drawn or painted look is desirable, it's a cool little program. It can read basic PSD files with no problems, and it's only $25.

Corel Painter - This is the best natrual media paint program on the market. At $369, it might be outside your price range, but if you can afford it, it's well worth the price. Again, I wouldn't recommend it for photorealism, but for stylized work, it's tough to beat. It has good support for PSD's.

Irfanview - This one is not an editor, just a viewer and converter. It can read and display nearly every image format in existence, including PSD, and convert to almost any other. It's a nice gem of a freebie.

CinePaint - This is a cousin to GIMP. The two programs have common ancestry, but each took a different fork of the family tree a few years back. CinePaint, as its name suggests, most often used in the film industry. It will read PSD files with a plugin. Like its cousin, it is free.


Those are just a few I could think of off the top of my head. There are literally dozens of others. Paintshop Pro and GIMP are by far the most popular among SL users who do not use Photoshop.

I use Robin Wood's templates on Paintshop Pro and they work perfectly.

I do this as well... I just find that many people like to hold PSP to a fault that I don't quite understand. Good to see that there are some other users out there. (^_^)y

I use both Robin Wood's and Chip Midnight's templates. Both sets are excellent and I sometimes blindly pick one over the other for no particular reason.......but mostly I choose one over the other for reasons that have to do with the colors I have in mind for the texture(s) I intend to make. Darker textures show up better with Robin's templates and lighter shows up better with Chip's.

GIMP is my program and it can open PSD files with no difficulty at all........it also can save to PSD's. Once you get past all the bad rap about GIMP being a difficult program to work with you'll find it a pretty easy program to use. It's not Photoshop and makes no attempt to be like it either. The filters are not named the same as PS but, for the most part, the filters in GIMP do much the same as the filters in PS. There are a vast number of open source filters you can obtain free from the GIMP website should you find you want or need them........many of the same filters PS has. It's the same with brushes......and on the latest version of GIMP, any brush made for PS can be used in GIMP.

You don't need an expensive imaging program to create textures or use the templates for making clothing, skins, or anything else for SL. Photoshop is the standard (I won't argue that) but just because it's the standard does not mean it's inferior to GIMP..........or any other imagining program for that matter. That depends on your use of such software, your needs, your budget.