Adding Your Texture-In PSP

[sanbie]

Once I have made the template I then open it in psp...Promote background layer to raster...

Get the magic wand and click on the white background...
Then go selections...down to invert...
[hs width=600 height=600]http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g320/Sanbie2/invert.jpg[/hs]

Then click on selections again down to modify...expand..
I do 5
[hs width=600 height=600]http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g320/Sanbie2/expand.jpg[/hs]

Find a texture that you want to use and flood fill into the selections...
At this point I do new layers for different things I want to do..
But for this purpose I have left it plain...
[hs width=600 height=600]http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g320/Sanbie2/floodfill-01.jpg[/hs]


Then just go save copy as and save as jpeg...

Then to make the bump map with the image still there...you just go up to image on top tool bar..down to grayscale ..and save copy as...
If the image isn't sharp enough for you you can at this point go to adjust brightness/contrast...and brightness on zero..contrast 10...then save copy as bump...

Or you can go adjust hue/saturation.
[hs width=600 height=600]http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g320/Sanbie2/grayscale.jpg[/hs]

I always save a copy as a pspimage with the layers all open so if I want to make changes I can...

At this point I open my poser and check to see if it's what I want...

If all seems ok I then close my poser and start on the next one...If it's not what I want I go back to my image and make the changes I want...
[hs width=600 height=600]http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g320/Sanbie2/finished.jpg[/hs]

Hope this helps in some small way..

If you have any questions just post them here and If I know the answer I will give it to you!!

Please remember I am only learning also...

[sanbie]

This should be the same process with Photoshop...using similar tools

[NitaB]

How can you get it into Poser if it's just a jpg file?

[sanbie]

Here is a photoshop tutorial...

http://chohole.francemi.net/texture_tutorial.htm

Let me find the bit you want...

[sanbie]

Mmm can't find it...

Ok what you do is make a new folder in your runtime/ texture folder naming it to what you what to call your creation...

when you have done the jpg you save it to this folder...

Then you open poser and add the item you want to texture...in this case say it's the shorts...so you double click on the shorts to add them...then you go into the material tab..and click on the box under diffuse...then you just browse to the folder you made with your texture and click on it to open it...it will then add itself to the diffuse box and hey presto...you have just added your texture!

[sanbie]

Easy simple steps first Hedd...easy simple first!! 

I am going to be re-doing all the tutorials and make it more step by step...

[NitaB]

Hedd, didn't I read somewhere that you use Blender? I've downloaded the free copy of Blender for Mac. It looks VERY complicated though -- you got any helpful hints for an absolute newbie?  

And as for you Miss Sanbie, those steps didn't sound so simple! 

[sanbie]

They are hun...as I said I am going to be re-doing the tutorials and do each step by step...

Just open poser and look in the material room...not the advanced tab...

where you change the diffuse colour...the box underneath that...just click it and then you browse to where your texture is..

[NitaB]

That texture should be in jpg form -- right?

[sanbie]

Jpg's are a smaller image..you can save as png..but they are huge files then..
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