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Skin texures questions. Solved

RitaCelesteRitaCeleste Posts: 625
edited April 2014 in New Users

Okay, years ago I bought some V4 makeups. I had big plans and nothing ever happened with that... Anyway, Gimp can't open the PSD files. I ordered a copy of Photoshop Elements 12. Will that open them?
Also I have a copy of Fiends Forever and you can apply makeup with a click. Does anyone know how you make a preset to apply a makeup like eyeshadow just by clicking it and have it go on top of the texture. Hopefully if I can use elements, I want to turn those old packs into presets for a base texture.
Some old V4 eye textures have a gap under the lid, not sure how some of those eye shadows will work on a G2F texture. What does it take to get a V4 texture on G2F without owning V4? I heard you have to load the maps on V4 then get them over to G2F, is there a work around?

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  • mark128mark128 Posts: 1,029
    edited December 1969

    RitaCeleste said:

    Some old V4 eye textures have a gap under the lid, not sure how some of those eye shadows will work on a G2F texture. What does it take to get a V4 texture on G2F without owning V4? I heard you have to load the maps on V4 then get them over to G2F, is there a work around?

    You can use Genesis 1 to load the old V4 textures and save them as a DUF format material preset.

    Most of the standard makeup presets are simply material presets for the face zone. Most set all the surface properties of the face region, although they are only changing the diffusion color texture. You can save presets like this by only selecting the face surface zone when you do a File -> Save As -> Material preset. There is a dialog box that comes up where you select which zones to save. Uncheck all of them and just select the face.

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Yes, it is very easy to just copy the V4 sets over and save them in a G2 format. Takes a little doing but only the one time and then your done. Full body texture and then the Make Up's and done most times.

  • RitaCelesteRitaCeleste Posts: 625
    edited December 1969

    Thanks everyone! I'm sorry I got tied up today and couldn't get back to the computer sooner. Its just been one of those days. Its so great to have a little good news before I head off to bed. saving materials presets looks pretty easy once I applied an already done makeup and looked at saving a preset. Thanks again.

  • StargazeyStargazey Posts: 254
    edited December 1969

    "Gimp can’t open the PSD files. I ordered a copy of Photoshop Elements 12. Will that open them?"

    Elements should open most PSD files, there can be a few problems, depending on the contents of layers etc and which version of PS the original file was saved from. If you don't need to preserve the layers, and just want an image that you can open in GIMP, you could just download Irfanview (free) and use that to convert the PSD file to another format, such as PNG (to preserve the transparency,) so that you can open it in GIMP.

  • RitaCelesteRitaCeleste Posts: 625
    edited December 1969

    stargazey said:
    "Gimp can’t open the PSD files. I ordered a copy of Photoshop Elements 12. Will that open them?"

    Elements should open most PSD files, there can be a few problems, depending on the contents of layers etc and which version of PS the original file was saved from. If you don't need to preserve the layers, and just want an image that you can open in GIMP, you could just download Irfanview (free) and use that to convert the PSD file to another format, such as PNG (to preserve the transparency,) so that you can open it in GIMP.

    Thanks! I kinda wish I had known this in advance of buying something else this month. Photoshop Elements does open them and makes it easy to work with those makeup files. My daughter thinks Gimp is harder to use so she is happy we have Elements on here now. I have seen some products that I wanted that I would probably need Photoshop to use. Most of them should work in Elements 12 though. I really have tried to avoid Photoshop for a very long time. Now that I have a nice legal copy of Photoshop Elements I am going to enjoy all the freebies and addons and extras for it. I still like Gimp so I'll use them both.

  • StargazeyStargazey Posts: 254
    edited December 1969

    Actually ('might make you feel better about buying Elements) - I got it slightly wrong! You can open PSD files in Irfanview, but it doesn't preserve the transparency, so it probably wouldn't have helped much anyway. (It's still a very good image viewer/converter, though!)

  • RitaCelesteRitaCeleste Posts: 625
    edited December 1969

    Yeah, I was running into that a lot. I'd run them threw a converter and all I'd get was the opening page. Elements was $85 with taxes at Amazon so it wasn't too bad. But as a hobbyist I can't see getting CS6. But Elements can use a lot of Photoshop things and do what I need it to do. I think it was a better choice for my 12 year old daughter too. Its not so expensive I can't get content to play with. Back in the day if you wanted to play with 3d you'd get hit with a software list like, "Oh you'll need, Photoshop, Poser, and Vue..." all pro of course..... I wouldn't feel too bad recommending Elements so far. I'll hold out on doing that for a bit until I see if it doesn't do important things. But so far its looking pretty good. Besides, I can always use Gimp if Elements just isn't up to it. Both Gimp and Photoshop have lots of free extras so getting those things to play with is a hobby in and of itself.

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