A skinning question.

[armando2371]

I've seen all those impressive DS transition skins that have been made, and I was wondering if someone could tell me how to make DS textures.

[General Kenobi]

Well for me its a combo of these effects and such:

 

Hue/Saturation (in selective areas of the original texture skin)

 

Brightness/Contrast (sorta gives you a "hard life" look when adjusted properly)

 

The veins you can either draw on by hand or use a plugin in a program like photoshop to get them. I put mine on many different layers and utilize blending options and erasing tool to make them blend in how you want.

 

The "Episode III" eyes are done (for me) by hand drawing the eyes. It helps to utilize a selection tool to outline the shape then airbrush tools to blend in yellow eyes with red fringes around the eyes edge. The center parts of the eye are hand painted.

 

That's how I go about making a DS transition face from the original.

 

Hope that helps a bit,

 

General Kenobi