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Bagracer Bergson
Registered User
Join date: 29 Oct 2005
Posts: 22
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11-03-2005 16:25
ok I am new here and also just got elements 4.0 and have spent about the last 8 hrs trying to get a clothing texture to work lol. I am aware of the statements made for alpha channels in photosop on here but its a different menue in elements. if i try to make a texture on the template and send it to my game it just comes as a all white template, or if I try to import it with an alpha channel it just shows the texture with a black backgroung instead of being transperent. If you have elements and have successfully imported an alpha enabled texture could you tell me how? thanks  |
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HeatherDawn Cohen
Who Me?!?!
Join date: 9 Aug 2004
Posts: 397
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11-03-2005 16:36
Elements does not support alphas to be saved on .tga formats. I don't even think .tga is supported at all.
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Malachi Petunia
Gentle Miscreant
Join date: 21 Sep 2003
Posts: 3,414
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11-03-2005 16:54
Photoshop Elements cannot be used for making SL clothes. Paint Shop Pro (about US$90) or "The Gimp" (free) are used succesfully by SL clothiers.
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Bertha Horton
Fat w/ Ice Cream
Join date: 19 Sep 2005
Posts: 835
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11-03-2005 21:31
I use Photoshop Elements, and TGA is supported, though I haven't tried to upload transparancies I made with it yet. However I did make the shirt I currently wear with PSE (just tweaked a template T-shirt file).
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Deirdre Boyer
Registered User
Join date: 20 Sep 2005
Posts: 34
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Photoshop Elements is of very limited use for SL
11-03-2005 22:59
PSE can save files as TGA. But it does not support saving any alpha information the the TGA - even though you CAN have transparency in a picture (which seems kinda weird).
That severely limits the usefullnes of the software for any serious kind of design work in SL. You can do some very simple clothing (adjusting length and cuts with the sliders), but nothing more. Windows for buildings are a nog-go, too. This is rather sad, because most of the functionalities I use in Photoshop are present in PSE. So I had to shell out some 1.000 US$ (typical price over here) for the full version - which is very nice and powerful, but contains a feature set of which I don't use 90%.
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