Background picture question...

[Ayva Meili]

If I wanted to take a picture of new clothes I've made or even my avatar's picture, how does one take the excess background out and put it like in a photo frame texture? Is there a easy way to take the excess out?

[Rolig Loon]

This thread from our old forum archives describes the best method I know of .>>> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Texturing/Removing-partial-white-from-an-image/td-p/388035

[Maitimo]

The easiest way is actually to rez a  prim behind you, stretch it out to a large wall so it fills your entire view. Texture it blank and add fullbright.

Instructions on how to rez and edit a prim are here http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Build-Tools/ta-p/700039 in case you don't know how.

Once you have the prim rezzed stand in front of it. You might need to rez another block to stand on ond turn it 100% transparent so your feet are included.  Take your snapshot, then open it in your graphics editor of choice and crop it as required and add your frame.  This is much easier than trying to edit out a background in Photoshop or whatever.