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Taking a good clothing picture for a box..

Honey Balogh
honey is bee barf
Join date: 18 Mar 2007
Posts: 68
08-09-2007 08:22
OK, I know how to take a simple picture of an avatar and post it... but, it's usually without feet and slight angle from above look to it.

What I wanted to know is if someone could help me in making the pictures look like the stores have...some have full body shots and then with different angles (front/back/side)..all in the same picture. Thank you in advance for any help.
Lindal Kidd
Dances With Noobs
Join date: 26 Jun 2007
Posts: 8,371
08-09-2007 09:10
You need two things.

1. A plain background. You can make one easily...assemble a floor and two sides of a cube, color them white and set them to Full Bright. Force Noon, or Force Midnight and use a set of lights to best show off your avatar.

Pose your avatar and take your photos. Upload them to disk.
Next, you need:

2. Photoshop, or another image-editing program (Jasc Paint Shop Pro, GIMP, whatever). Open your photos, cut out the avatar from the background, and paste the images into a new file combining several poses or outfits.

Save as a PNG file and upload back in-world.