Originally Posted by Madhu Maruti

I know nothing about this subject. But I do remember reading a really interesting post on the SL Forum which was a tutorial on making a SL skin from a photograph.

It was more involved than simply stretching the photo to match the shape of the template, so it may not be what you want. Nevertheless, here it is -
SL Forums
To me, as a non-knowledgable reader, it looks extremely well-conceived and helpful, and conveys how and why making a skin is so much work.

My inclination here is to agree with Josh; making a skin from a photo is not simply a matter of deforming the skin to match the template, it is indeed a more ambitious project.

But as I said, I know nothing about skinmaking, so perhaps it just seems more complicated to me than it does to you.