How to Make Clothes(memo)

for those who own Photoshop 7 and or 8.
how to work the templates in SL.

First lets open the template shall we.
Then I will discuss different parts of photoshop that you will need.

Here is the layer window in Photoshop.
Below is the layers that are in it.
You will use this alot when working with clothes.


1) Layer tab. I suggest you keep this on at all times.
2) Overlay. This is a light gray grid.
3) Opacity. You can use this to turn down your working layer so you can gaze at the background. You can also use this to make a completely mesh hsee thru article of clothing.
4) UV map - tons of lines to help you with where to shade, how the body shapes and where to place tattoos best.
5) Background - The base picture. Tells which is front and back of clothes, as well as has basic size.
6) Visibility. - This cuts the layers visible on and off. This is so you can make a clean save.

If you do not turn the overlay layer off then it will leave gray lines on your clothes which will look bad.

Adobe Photoshop Tool Bar:
You can use the pen tool to do some vectoring of clothes. If you pick a color and use the tool to design a shirt. When u have completed it, it will automatically fill the shirt up with color.

Like i mentioned before. the layer visibility icon is what appears in the layer window when you have choosen to view a certain layer of that file.

the Burn button shades places with a brush where you need shading.
The dodge brush highlights.

When you go to make your clothes make sure that the work layer you'll be working on is inbetween the overlay layer and the background layer. This way you can still see the lines from the overlay. Also when working make sure on the visibility list that your worklayer, overlay and background layer is all three checked to show.