My eyes....
Jul. 6th, 2006 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sailorzeoI started playing around with the Sims 2 Bodyshop program that comes with the game. I'd used it to make packageable Sims before (not that I ever really shared them with anyone other than Matt), but recently, I wanted to try to recreate some of the outfits and costumes my characters wear in my head. I can't draw for spit, so I thought maybe recoloring some of the Sims outfits I had could work.
So I went looking for tutorials. Found some really good ones on MTS2 by Faylin; I'm going to print them out Saturday morning at work so I don't have to keep flipping between Photoshop, Bodyshop and my web browser.
It's not as hard as I thought it was, at least to get started. And now I'm semi-addicted. I spent some of my daydreaming time at work thinking about what fabrics I had in my fabric stash I'd want to scan and make into 1280x1024 files for use as base textures. I ended up scanning three of them, three fairly wild prints (tropical birds, tropical flowers, and flamingos). Scanned at 150 dpi, 8.5x14, then scaled down 25% in Photoshop, and the resultant tile copy-and-pasted, lining up matching elements, until I had a filled image. Luckily for me, the pattern was a larger-scale pattern, perfect for brightly colored print sundresses and Hawaiian shirts. In fact, as test runs, I made a Hawaiian shirt with recolored pants for the birds, a sundress with the flowers, and adult female pajamas with the flamingos. Only problem is squinting at the computer screen to make sure the seam disappears.
I'd originally bought this fabric oh, about three years ago, in order to make some 1:6 scale Hawaiian shirts, but never got around to it. I have at least three more swatches I want to scan for this purpose. My wrist is killing me, though, from the mouse usage. But hey! I can make my own custom content now!
So I went looking for tutorials. Found some really good ones on MTS2 by Faylin; I'm going to print them out Saturday morning at work so I don't have to keep flipping between Photoshop, Bodyshop and my web browser.
It's not as hard as I thought it was, at least to get started. And now I'm semi-addicted. I spent some of my daydreaming time at work thinking about what fabrics I had in my fabric stash I'd want to scan and make into 1280x1024 files for use as base textures. I ended up scanning three of them, three fairly wild prints (tropical birds, tropical flowers, and flamingos). Scanned at 150 dpi, 8.5x14, then scaled down 25% in Photoshop, and the resultant tile copy-and-pasted, lining up matching elements, until I had a filled image. Luckily for me, the pattern was a larger-scale pattern, perfect for brightly colored print sundresses and Hawaiian shirts. In fact, as test runs, I made a Hawaiian shirt with recolored pants for the birds, a sundress with the flowers, and adult female pajamas with the flamingos. Only problem is squinting at the computer screen to make sure the seam disappears.
I'd originally bought this fabric oh, about three years ago, in order to make some 1:6 scale Hawaiian shirts, but never got around to it. I have at least three more swatches I want to scan for this purpose. My wrist is killing me, though, from the mouse usage. But hey! I can make my own custom content now!
