Today, we'll be learning how to create your own tattoo using Photoshop and/or GIMP! The techniques described in this tutorial will also work when creating clothing or other transparent textures, but for the purposes of this tutorial, we'll be making just a simple tattoo. :)

What You Will Need For This Tutorial

1. Photoshop or GIMP

2. The upper or lower avatar PSD files (if you do not have them, you may download them here). For the purposes of this tutorial, we will be working on the upper avatar layer.

Please choose which tutorial you would like to read: Photoshop | GIMP

Creating Your Own Tattoos Using Photoshop

The first thing we'll need to do is create our tattoo in Photoshop! To do this, open the avatar PSD file you'd like to work on. Upper or lower, it is your choice! For this tutorial, we will be working on the upper avatar layer.

In keeping with last week's bikini and t-shirt contest, I thought I'd take it one step further before continuing on my regular photo touchup and photoshop/GIMP tutorials! Today we are going to learn one of the things I just KNOW clothing creators get asked most often: wrinkle creation.

Now, this is just one method of wrinkle creation, the one that works best for me. There are a million ways to create wrinkles in fabric, but I am going to show you the one I have found simplest.

To do this tutorial, you will need:

1. Photoshop or GIMP

2. A Photoshop/GIMP clothing file to work on (I have provided the one I will be using for this tutorial - download here). NOTE: This tutorial assumes you have some basic knowledge of Photoshop and GIMP, such as what a layer is, how to create a new one, and how to apply filters.

3. The willingness to learn! Remember, no one starts out at the top.

Please select the tutorial you would like to read: Photoshop | GIMP

Welcome to the first of what I hope will be many tutorials to come. Seeing as how this is the question I get asked the most, I thought it only fitting to begin this weekly blogging with a green screen removal tutorial.You will need three things for this lesson:

1. A snapshot taken on a greenscreen (you may download the one I will be working on, or you may set up your own green screen - instructions below - and take one for yourself to work on).

2. Photoshop or GIMP.

3. Patience.

Ready? Great! Let's get started. First, let's learn how to create our own in-world green screen. For those of you who would like to skip ahead, I have provided two seperate tutorials in this post - one will teach you how to remove the green screen in Photoshop, the other will explain the process in GIMP. Please select which you'd like to read: Photoshop | GIMP.

Setting up your own, one prim green screen in world; step-by-step: