talisien

Hello everyone,

I need your help. I've seen many ads where it looks like someone is wearing clothing, but there is no avatar underneath. An example would be this photo:



Can anyone tell me the best way to do this?

__________________
Talisien the Undead Prince of Darkness, Who Searches the Night on an Endless Quest to Drain Life from All Who Have the Misfortune to Cross His Path, or Road, or in Some Cases, Four Lane Superhighway, On Account of He Likes to Travel In His Carriage of Doom, Drawn by Six Black, Skeletal Zombie Horses and Built from the Bones and Skins of His Victims, Esq, PhD, MSW.




My Stuff

Liber Obscurum Blog

Liber Obscurum, Library of the Occult

Title courtesy of Titles by Trout™

Casper Priestman

Probably the easiest way I can think of would be to use a green screen...but in this case a green skin...and then just mask select it, invert and you'd have your clothing selected only.

__________________
So you're on Twitter huh? The number of followers you have doesn't make you better than anyone else. Hitler had millions, Jesus had 12.

Tess Whitcroft

If you use a 2.0 features viewer you can have the avatar in the clothes use that alpha layer to be invisible. I have a set of alphas for feet/shoes that let me dump those annoying invisi-prims. I am sure you can get/make a set for a whole avatar.


Tess

__________________
Studies have shown that people who have more birthdays live longer

Marianne Little

Tess is right, and that alpha layer is in everybody's library.

It is three alpha masks there, "Invisible avatar", "No feet" and "No head". The Invisible avatar is just a full alpha mask.

Edited: Using that, you would see the back of the sweater too. The ad the OP shows, is probably used with a green skin.

Edited again: Alpha works on clothing layers too, doesn't it? Only prims would be visible.

__________________
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27764102@N02/
"My opinion is, a designer should always try to enhance the inworld experience for his clients. In a virtual world, where individuality is hard to obtain, selling modifieable items is like selling a bit of freedom. Think about that." ~Silent Sky

Casper Priestman

Awesome suggestions....and of course I'm still running 1.23 which shows

Marianne Little

You can't run Cool? I have Cool VL 1.23.5 (29) that runs better than viewer 2 for me atm. That Cool version has alpha and tattoo layers, and multiple attachments. It don't have multiple layers. Make your own acid green skin, if not someone has it and can pass you one?

Casper Priestman

Thanks for the suggestion Marianne, I'll give it a whirl!

talisien

Thanks for the help everyone. I think I'll go with using a green screen of sorts. I use phoenix, so I can use alphas, but that sounds like the more difficult option

Neve

You can also try to do so: take the pic inside a white box for having a uniform background, wear a new skin and make it completely white, then you can cut all the white part away with photoshop and you will have only the shirt without avatar ready to use with wathever background you prefer
I use to work in this way

__________________



L e s P e t i t s D é t a i l s . B l o g .


L e s P e t i t s D é t a i l s . S l u r L .


L e s P e t i t s D é t a i l s S k i n s . S l u r L .

<3

Lil Hapmouche

Tutorial: Optimizing Windlight for Second Life Photography | Rezzable - that's a tutorial for "green skin" photo taking approach, at least in terms of creating a Windlight preset for that effect.

The "all white" method does sound far easier, though, unless you got white/light clothes.

Neve

Yes is very easy and fast, I use it also with dark clothes, the result is good the same The very important thing is using a precise selection without any nuance.