DOES ANYONE KNOW WHO TO MAKE WALL DECALS OR WALL TATTOOS PLZ

[alana Dorchester]

DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO MAKE WALL DECALS OR WALL TATTOO THANK YOU

[Echo Hermit]

Welcome to Second Life Answers, alana

A quick visit to Second Life Marketplace and this comes up when I search for "wall decals"

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/products/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search%5Bcategory_id%5D=&search%5Bmaturity_level%5D=GMA&search%5Bkeywords%5D=wall+decal

If you are looking for something specific, as in custom made, you could do worse than to have a browse through Marketplace items and see if anyone does custom work.

Other responses will follow, so please keep checking back here.

 

[Rolig Loon]

Until I saw your question, I had never heard of a "wall decal,"  but it's nothing new.  For the past couple of hundred years, we have called them "wallpaper."  In SL, it's just a texture that you apply to a wall, like any texture that you apply to a prim.  You can buy ready-made ones in thousands of shops around SL or in Marketplace.  If you're mildly adept, you can make your own with Photoshop, GIMP, PaintShop Pro, or your other favorite graphic arts program.  You could even make a photrealistic one by editing a snapshot from your cell phone.

[valerie Inshan]

Hi alana. You can create you own custom decals using a photo editing program such as Gimp (free) or Photoshop (not free). These will be transparent background layers : make sure it is saved as PNG and Save background color is unchecked. See these tutorials:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbfysv_second-life-texture-tutorial-create_lifestyle

Good luck and have fun!

[Lindal Kidd]

Valerie's tutorial links will set you on the right path.  One thing to remember:

When you apply a texture to a wall, it will REPLACE the texture that is already there.  With a "decal", you don't want to do that.  You want to put it OVER an existing texture.  There are two ways to do that.

1.  If you own a copy of the wall texture, download it to your computer, open it in your paint program, paint your decal texture over it in a new layer, save the composition as a new .jpg or .gif file, and pay $L10 to upload the new texture to SL.  Then apply it to your wall. 

2.  If you don't have time for all that, or don't own the wall texture, create your decal texture with a transparent background as the tutorials show.  When you upload it to SL, don't apply it directly to the wall.  Create a new prim, and place it in front of the wall.  Then apply your decal texture to it.  This method costs you a prim, but it allows you to easily re-size the decal without affecting the underlying wall texture, and it lets you give or sell that decal to others to use on their own walls.