How can I create my own tattoo?

[Lexie Linden]

Is it hard to make a tattoo? I would like to try if someone can tell me how.

[Ayana Auer]

There are various resources for this. You could search in the Second Life wiki - Creation portal .

 

You can apply images and textures of your own design to your avatar's skin. However, most avatars use this skin texture layer for wearing custom skins, and use the various clothing layers to wear tattoos.

Tattoos, like other forms of texture transparency in the Second Life® virtual world, require a special part of an image known as an "alpha channel". The alpha channel serves as a "hidden color" that shows where to draw the texture and where to remain transparent. One such use for alpha channels would be to "paint" a window into a wall without physically building the window.

 

Another good resource to learn the steps involved in making tattoos is here.

[Irene Muni]

The last link of the previous message ("here") to the KB, it's more useful now linking to wiki -> Creating Tattoos

[Servian Serevi]

Get a good, free gaphics editor installed on your computer. Try GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/

I made my first T-shirt using this tutorial: http://nicolaescher.com/tutorials/creating-your-first-shirt.php

A tatoo is basically a T-shirt with transparent pixels everywhere except the tatoo part...

Have fun!