My First T-shirt

by Mir Bear-Johnson (SL Avatar Mir Benelli)
'm excited. I made my first shirt in SL today. Well, not my first
shirt because I've been able to do that for a while, but my first
shirt with invisible spots and such. It's nothing fancy but man am I
proud of it. (Image) It took me a while to find an explanation on how
to do the invisible thing that made sense. (Mostly because I'm running
Photoshop CS2 and apparently the instructions for that are different
then any of the other photoshops. Who knew.)

Anyways, making shirts themselves isn't hard. I just hopped over to
the Second Life Wiki (https://wiki.secondlife.com) and stumbled across
this gem, http://nicolaescher.com/tutorials/clothing-in-second-life.php,
which gave me the bases I needed to be able to orient words and such
on my clothing.


Then going to another article,
http://nicolaescher.com/tutorials/creating-your-first-shirt.php, from the
same person I made my first shirt!

Clearly it wasn't much more interesting then what I could've made
without paying the 10$L to uploadthe texture.

I was honestly a little bummed -- then I started trying to play around
with alpha channels. Those are the things that make it possible to
have invisibility and transparency in textures. I tried using the same
person's tutorials as helped me figure out the shirt,
http://nicolaescher.com/tutorials/alpha-channel-primer.php, but they
just didn't work for me. So I ended up finding
http://www.sltutorials.net/magazine/
and this Quicktime video
http://www.robinwood.com/Catalog/Technical/SL-Tuts/SLPages/TranspSL.html.
And from there I was able to figure it out.

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I'm going to need to make more Linden dollars camping to support this
new habit of mine!

But still, I'm mad proud of my shirt.