Matching Textures On Clothing

[Rohsie1488312020]

Hi. I'm still learning clothes making and I need some tips or tricks on how to match up clothing textures, for example, creating a plaid shirt with upper and lower on the jacket layer. I'm trying to make a plaid shirt, but the upper and lower fabric dont quite match up (lines etc)..Any ideas?

[Topo Nightfire]

One thing that you have to be aware of is that the lower layer is 80% the size of the upper layer so anytexture used needs to be 80% of the upper texture. The other thing is if you have Photoshop 3 extended or higher (as long as it is the extended version) then painting directly onto avatar makes alignment of textures easier.

[Rohsie1488312020]

Thanks for your reply Topo. I'm definately thinking of upgrading my Photoshop (currently PS7..I'm still in the dark ages lol).

[Chosen Few]

You should definitely upgrade.  PS7 is not only ancient, it was riddled with problems, even when it was current.  Adobe royally screwed up with that version, and they admittted as much just a few short months after its release.  Among other problems, it's the one and only version of Photoshop that cannot process alpha channels correctly in TGA files, which is more or less a showstopper for texturing.

The free 7.0.1 patch fixes most of the major flaws in 7.0.  At the very least, you should download and install that patch before you do anything else.  http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=1851