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2017-11-03, 09:56
(This post was last modified: 2017-11-03, 10:05 by Mike_Doc.)
Hi,
For someone with little to no graphics abilities I just wondered what people do when they want to create new textures for either an existing skin or creating a new look for a skin?
Any pointers?
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yes sorry, meant all the textures / graphic used in the skin and what people do it they actually create new files to use in the skin? I know Photoshop / GIMP but wondered what some might do if they didn't have the skills for those applications?
I sometimes think about doing a new skin but then have no idea how to do the textures to form the graphics of the skin so don't bother in the end.
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There's a huuuuugge amount of tutorials to be found for Photoshop. I bet there are a lot for other Gimp too.
It really is a matter of practice.
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From my point of view u dont realy need a lot of textures to create a skin. A white square nd thats it beside the needed icons. Just use colordiffuse to color the white image, same for transparence.
If ur looking for new "unused" icons u might finde some in the www