Clothing Tutorials

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The following help for making clothing was originally posted on Torley's blog. Recognizing that info wants to be free and the list would be more useful it was updated regularly, the contents have been migrated here. Please add your fave tuts, remove obviated bits, and improve the usefulness of this resource!

General

  • Clothing & Skin Templates - By Chip Midnight. You’ll need to be signed into your account on the SL Forums to read this, and more down the page. These templates are even higher-rez than the official ones. Chip Midnight is an original master of fine fashions in SL. Once you get really serious about detail, you’ll want to get these and have a deep look.
  • Second Life tutorials - By Robin Sojourner AKA Robin Wood. She has a really elegant, organized approach. Check out her fantasy art as proof! She’s mentioned that she’ll be adding more to this site, so keep watching, and check out her posts on the forums too, like her fab T-Shirt Template — learn how to make wrinkles without photo-sourcing! Download also her UV templates.
  • Second Life Clothing Tutorials - By Minmo Dreadlow. A Simple tutorial on how to create a t-shirt using photoshop, or turn your own clothing into secondife clothes with photoshop. Offers several free shirt fabrics as well.
  • T-Shirt Tutorial - By Nephilaine Protagonist, head of PixelDolls, quality in quantity for the avatar. Here she shows how to make a shirt. It’s a bit hard to read, but follow the directions and keep at it. Note: the tutorial is currently missing, but Nephi left a note that she's planning to rewrite it.
  • Chosen Few's SL forum posts - This sci-fi expert is a texturing databank. Watching him answer questions is like a cross between classical opera and a current events talk show, without the boring parts. The often-messy structure of the SL Forums has ironically lent itself well to his clarity. Just read his posts!
  • SLUniverse Knowledge Base - By Cristiano Midnight. More than just clothing tutorials, this is a whole potpourri of SLinfo you’ll want to plunge into.
  • Tattoo Creation - By Amber Stonecutter. Tattoos may be likened to clothes that are harder to take off, at least offline. The magic unfolds in this thread. Amber had never made a tutorial before, and in response to Flugel inquiring, she spontaneously cooked one up — pictures and all! She even got props from Chosen and Robin.
  • Olila's Second Life - Various Tutorials. Preparations and 'Good to Know' before you start making clothes or skins and a Basic Skin-tutorial (also Hairtexture-tutorial and Tips & Tricks for new residents). By Olila Oh.