I need a tutorial for the lasso tool
vita4all:
Hi Yakov,
First, thank you for taking th time to do a mesh and recoloration tutorial.
You helped me before on the polygonal lasso technique, where I
recolored your white gangster suit to having a black shirt and white tie,
but I used the brush and painted in the black color, using these tools.
Here's a related problem that has to do with fill patterns.
1. When I google for textures and see one I like,
I'll save the image, and here's an example of a jean pattern:
2. Next, say I want to use the polygonal lasso tool to add a
blue jean collar on a shirt I like, and the rectangular marquee tool
to add a pocket. No problem using the tools. I copied a piece
of the texture (from above), then used paste into selection for
the area I lasso'd. This was the end result:
The fill pattern on the collar and the pocket didn't 'shrink' enough
and no longer looks like the original blue jean texture. Unless the photo
image of a texture is already very small, this happens all the time.
3. Below is a photo shot a my first successful fill in
(for the sleeves), but I cut and pasted part of the blue jeans
from a pair of pants from another Sim outfit.
While I'm pleased as punch over this, I want to use the pretty textures
that are available on the web.
What's weird is that I can use a photo from a poster, reduce the size
and paste it on the outfit, and it turns out great.
But even when I reduce the size of photos of the textures,
they still turn out the same (like the collar and pocket photo above).
How do I get around this problem?
BeosBoxBoy:
When you find an image like the one above - you would first want to resize it a bit and try to tile it in a fashion that gives you the best chance of using it for pant legs or the back of a jacket or whatever your end ambition is - I have made two PNGs below than will give you a fair idea of the "best target" for that particular texture. Remember, detail will be lost no matter how you handle it, so try for the look and feel for than mircoscopic perfection.
The resizing of any texture is always a personal decision. Sometimes different effects require you be "creative" with what you have. For instance, that texture un-resized turned so the fibres run up-and-down would make an excellent sweater pattern :lol: just tinker with the colour balance a bit and voila! a sweater!
vita4all:
Hi Yakov,
I just sent you a PM on this. Thank you so much, and I'll post back if I have another question on this.
Take care,
Vita
Chairman Greg:
OpenHouseJack, what you might be looking for is the "Feather" feature on the lasso tool.
In Jakov's picture in message #2 above, look straight up from the left-hand arrowhead. See where it says "Feather 0 pixels"? You can change that to cause the edges of the selection to be fuzzy so that whatever you do blends in nicely with the background.
You can get the same effect by fiddling with a layer mask and blurring the edges of the mask. (To directly edit a layer mask, alt-click on it.)
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