Making a T-shirt in Second Life

Making a University/Event T-shirt

. Great way to welcome students or guests . Promotes community . Establishes identity . Include in gift bag

Presentation Outline:

Ways to make an in-world t-shirt

Photoshop Instructions and Resources

Uploading your design (logo) to Second Life

Making the actual t-shirt

Sizing

Heidi Trotta and Nick Noakes Copyright Heidi Trotta, Nick Noakes, 2007. This work is the intellectual property of the authors. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes.. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the authors, however, we would be flattered if you used our materials! Making a University/Event T-shirt

Two ways to make clothing in Second Life

Entirely in world using the Appearance Menu

Importing clothing designs using a texture upload + the Appearance Menu (use of templates) ex. Our university/event t-shirt

Templates: Available for download from a number of sources Photoshop files with layers ex. University/event t-shirt Making a University/Event T-shirt

Materials Needed

Photoshop CS2 or Graphic Editing Program

From this wiki, download: http://sl.nmc.org/wiki/NMC2007_Hit_The_Ground_Running#ClothingTutorial

Photoshop file with template for shirt

Clothes Making for Educators – Background Information

Detailed instructions

Photoshop Steps

Open the template file in Photoshop

Open your logo in Photoshop

Place your logo on a new layer above Design Example

Position your logo on the shirt

Customize with special effects

Change color of shirt if desired

Flatten and Compress

Making a University/Event T-shirt You can find the template and directions to print at: http://sl.nmc.org/wiki/NMC2007_Hit_The_Ground_Running

Uploading your file to Second Life

Resize Photoshop file to 512 x 512

Save as a .tga (targa file)

Open Second Life

File > Upload Image

Preview Image

Choose Male or Female Upper Body

Look good? Click upload and pay $10

Upload is a texture in your library

Open Inventory

Right Click on Clothing Folder

Choose New Clothes > New Shirt

New Shirt is in your clothing folder

Double click on shirt icon to wear it.

The Appearance Menu

Right Click on Your Avatar

Choose Appearance

In Appearance Dialog, choose Shirt

Apply Your Logo

(1) Click on Fabric

(2) Choose your texture from your texture file (your uploaded logo) or click and drag on top of Pick Fabric

(3) Click Select

Making a University/Event T-shirt (1) (2) (3)

Finish Up

Save As

Give your shirt a name

Close your inventory

Enjoy!

Questions?

Contacts and Resources:

Heidi Trotta (aka Heidi TeeCee) [email_address] Web: www.heiditrotta.com Nick Noakes (aka Corwin Carillon) [email_address] You can find the template and directions to print at: http://sl.nmc.org/wiki/NMC2007_Hit_The_Ground_Running Many thanks to Robin for permission to use her shirt template and edit her directions… Robinwood at www.robinwood.com