An alpha-editable skirt is basically an overlay that goes on a mesh, so that a skirt can be shorted or extended using an image-editing program, without having to alter the mesh itself. Try to avoid alpha-editable skirts, if you can. I'm going to try to select one that is as close to the shape of the dress in the picture as possible. We're going to look for a mesh now to put this photo on. Once it loads, go to Create Parts>Start New Project >Create Clothing. You can crop them close and delete the rest of the screen caps. In the end you should have two photos: one of the front of the dress and one of the back, both of which are large enough to work with. Repeat for the third section of the dress. Line up the two sections so that they meet perfectly. Select the area of the midsection of the dress, cut it, and then paste it onto the other canvas with the top of the dress. Open up the second screen cap of the front of the dress. Now paste what we've cut at the top of the canvas.

Select the area of the top of the dress that we're going to be working with, cut it, then color the canvas a solid color (I've done black) and rotate the entire canvas 90 degrees. Open up the first screen cap of the front of the dress. Next I'll open up Photoshop and paste the sections together. Usually I do three caps for the front, three for the back. Take enough caps of both the front and the back of the dress that you know you have the whole thing-some overlap between the pictures is good. It's steps like these-like piecing together your picture-that I mean when I say that photo-skinning is tedious and time-consuming. I've never found a website where the picture of the full dress (pictured above on the right) has been large enough. So you know how clothing websites have a magnifying glass that lets you zoom in on the outfit? You want to take screen caps of these magnified sections of the dress-which, yes, will result in you having a bunch of disjointed sections of the dress, which we will piece together. I want the picture that I'm going to be skinning from to be as large as possible. So I've selected this dress, and now I'll open up my screen-capture software (Fraps, in my case). If you're just starting out, I'd suggest going with an outfit that is sleeveless or strapless. I never use the sleeves from the actual picture, but usually piece them together or color them by hand. I like patterns and folds because they translate well solid colors and smooth fabrics, on the other hands, can sometimes look flat and flood-filled. The color white is sometimes hard to photo-skin, because it'll appear washed-out in-game. If you've never done this before, I'd suggest avoiding sheer or lacy patterns, as well as any patterns that require intricate cut-outs. You will never be able to create the outfit exactly as it as pictured-oftentimes I manipulate my outfit a lot just to get it to look right in-game sometimes I cut off parts of a dress, or stick on fabrics from other outfits, etc., etc. It's good to keep in mind what you can and cannot do with photo-skinning. I'm going to be using ModCloth, which is one of my favorites. You just want the outfit to be as flat, as straight-forward as possible. It's easiest to skin an outfit that's not on a person. You want to use a clothing website that pictures both the front and the back of its clothing. For simplicity's sake, we'll make a dress for this tutorial. Dresses are probably the easiest to skin full outfits-with pants-are probably the hardest, because the proportions of the pants will never line up with the proportions of the mesh (the picture will always be too small, which requires stretching and/or copy-paste tiling). The first thing you'll need to do is find a picture of an outfit, front and back. However, I prefer GIMP for photo-skinning because I find some of its features more friendly, and it's the image-editing software that I first learned on. GIMP, I've found, distorts images when resizing. Normally I use Photoshop for all CC because it's higher-quality than GIMP. Photoshop (not required but recommended for resizing photos).GIMP (or your preferred image-editing software, as long as it is capable of handling layers).It takes a bit of practice to do well, and sometimes you'll put hours of work into a piece of clothing only to trash it in the end. However, it should be kept in mind that photo-skinning is time-consuming, tedious, and often times very frustrating (or at least to me it is). You don't need any experience with creating CC or clothing to follow this tutorial it will be much more in-depth than your typical photo-skinning tutorial, but I will try to explain everything that I'm doing so that beginners can follow along. In this tutorial I will take you through the method that I use of creating clothing from pictures.

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