My First Skin!

Are you guys proud of me!?

I have a question that goes with this skin, HOW DO YOU EDIT TEAMCOLOR!? When I try to edit it it F's up the file!

Im not really sure what it is, but I think it looks nice

Heres the last, so how do you like it? Are the cracks good? I love the cracks!

lol you crazy person. Well to alpha out stuff.. well first what program do you use? I have both photoshop and paintshop pro. But i always use paintshop.. idk why. For paintshop you just go to
masks/load from alpha channel...
and just click "ok"
Then you go to
masks/view mask
then go to
masks/edit
Click on the paint tool, black removes parts of the model+skin
white removes the red checker things (black and team color) and any shade of grey makes it transparent according to the shade (its cool). I'm not too sure, but I don't know any way to ADD team color to a skin in a paint program.. poo

Ohhhhh, So you cant ADD the team color, only remove it?

I use PSP, and when I saev it says something is making it merge the layers...

BTW, any thoughts on my skin???

its a good first skin but the cracks... im not anything close to an artist but i think the way u smudged them over onto the rest of the skin makes them look just like lines... i dunno emote_confused in psp after u edit the alpha channels and all you should always go to saveas not save... save may work if ur lucky but when you go to saveas on the bottom right side of the save box there should be a button for options. go there and there will be a bunch of stuff on top, dont pay attention to that, on the bottom there should be 2 options, compressed and uncrompressed, check (or bubble whatever) the one that says uncompressed normally for me it starts like that but just do it anyways. and again nice first skin :D

EDIT: oh ya, dont worry about the message, I get it too. it probably has something to do with uh... umm... some that I dont know about. But my skins work so im happy

Thanks and Thanks... But I didnt smudge the cracks, I just used a low Opacity black, and went over a few times, and made it darker into the mid, any suggestions on making them look better?

no, im not too good at making little details like that. i just know how to put em in the game and all the computer part stuff cause theres only 1 way to make it work and endless posibilities on how to make a good picture (thats why i like math and not writing :ggani:)

Take pictures in world edit with the lighting turned off so we can make out the details.

It looks like it could use some shading.

Here you go, I took 3 shots from Editor, now he has custom team color, Thanks!

So is there an easier way to post screenies?

crap sry dude i forgot to say something.
after you edit the alpha channel go to
Masks/Save to alpha channel
then just click on the alpha channel above "New Channel" then just save over it. Then do normal "Save as" then name it and import it into your map.. duh

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