Painting onto the Second Life avatar in Photoshop

This video tutorial provides instructions and tips for using the Second Life 3D avatar mesh in Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended or CS5 Extended.

Get the PSD's: http://www.exodusinc.net
Baked Textures (FREE!): https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Fake-Bake-Shaded-Avatar-TGAs-Tutorial/14...
Original (text) tutorial source: http://rezzable.com/blog/rykerbeck/tutorial-painting-avatar-mesh-using-photos...

Music (used with permission) by CruciA Static - http://www.youtube.com/user/cruciamentum
-Statika Mix
-I Look Away
-Gemini
-Hot

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• avatar
• skin
• clothing
• clothes
• template
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• skinning
• how
• to
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• paint
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[Carmilaish]

Everytime i talk inworld (sl) about upload in 1024/1024 (my case r skins), they almost kill me O.o; PS: 512 or 1024.., tell me: btw do u know if 700/700 or any other size between the sl default 512 and the best resolution(?) 1024, can do any harm? Any prob doing 800/800 instead of 512/512 or 1024/1024? Must be necessary 1 of this 2 file size? U cant do a file size between those 2? o.o

[trance12]

@Carmilaish While I agree that large images placed on small items such as tiny prims, is a waste of resources, textures on larger surfaces often lose considerable resolution if the image is in any way complicated. For an avatar, smaller images WILL likely sacrifice resolution. You could upload in odd sizes, but SL will re-size them anyway if you do (thus again, sacrificing resolution). Stick with 256, 512 and 1024 proportions. Always do test uploads first and decide what looks best.

[mmbjulien]

hi.i've been having a prob with the 3d models.when opening them photoshop asks me to rasterize the files or it won't open.i'm using cs5.is there a compatibility problem?

[trance12]

@mmbjulien Not that I'm aware of. I originally put them together in cs4 but I use them now just fine in cs5. It's possible perhaps ps isn't allocated enough memory usage? You can change the max mem (the recommended amount depends highly on your system capabilities) by going to edit > preferences > performance. Other than that, I have no other explanation.

[Hermdon]

Thank you Trance, thats very helpful

[Carmilaish]

@trance12 TY:) I always do temporary uploads (sometimes i even wear a skin for a month,temporary uploaded everydays,saving my 30L,O.o lol); I get t feeling (about skin) that, face can have a smaller image size than the rest of t av body images; i mean, 512 for t face, and 1024 for t upper and lower body, for instance; i will test that with more atention: But, watever, TYVM for your observations:)

[Slebari]

@mmbjulien Pssst, you should have two versions of photoshop on your computer if you check your menus. There's the norm and 64bit version. 64bit version doesn't even have 3d menu so it bitches about the rasterize, but try the other version and things should start working.

[RaidenCage]

Awesome tutorial. But just out of curiosity, why did you have us load and group the baked textures too? We've never used them. Well you never did, on the video :)

[qisreenelton]

as a noob in clothes making..thank you so much for the video trance. Can you export this as mesh clothing to SL?

[MrsJD4Life]

Thank you so much for this..I been wanting to make mesh clothes for my shop and you have saved me *hugs*