Have you ever looked at expensive apparel and said, "I don't know if that will work well on my dragon"? Have you ever scryed a dragon and said, "I think that would look good with this apparel"? Wonder no more! With the magic of Photoshop, you can put any apparel on any dragon!
I want to see what my dragon Anna looks like with the navy aviator coat... when she's finished being gened up! Here's what she's going to look like:
First, we'll take the preview of the navy aviator coat and put it into Photoshop.
Please note: for some reason, all the copy-pasted images have white backgrounds when I put them into Photoshop. I don't know how well this tutorial will work without the white background, so I recommend putting a white background on all the copy-pasted images if they don't already have one.
Now, we've already run into a problem. If Anna was a male, we could have seen her blank mannequin by simply selecting "Skydancer" without selecting male/female, but since she's a female, we'll have to jump a few hoops. Let's grab the mannequins of two pieces of apparel, ideally two that are small and far apart on the dragon's body. Then layer them on top of each other and erase the area with the apparel on the top layer. If done right, only the blank mannequin should be left! Right click and select "Merge down" on the top layer.
But what do we do next? How do we get the matching parts of the layers out of the way while still leaving the apparel left?
The secret lies in the weird little blend mode near the bottom of the list, known as "Divide". Bascially, the pixels set to Divide do math on the pixels below, making them lighter depending on how dark the pixels above are. If the pixels above and below are the same, or the pixels above are darker than the pixels below, the result will be white. So, if we set the top layer to Divide...
BOOM! The blank mannequin on top has canceled out the mannequin on the bottom, leaving the apparel behind. The coat is a bit lighter than it's supposed to be, but that can be easily fixed! Simply use the Magic Wand tool (make sure "Sample All Layers" is checked!) to select and erase the apparel layer around the coat. Then delete the top layer...
...and now all that's left is the isolated apparel! It looks a tiny bit funny around the edges, but it'll work fine for a preview. Put the picture of the dragon under the apparel layer and you're done! You have an apparel preview!
Money is no object! Nothing will get in the way of your dragons' fashion dreams now!
I want to see what my dragon Anna looks like with the navy aviator coat... when she's finished being gened up! Here's what she's going to look like:
First, we'll take the preview of the navy aviator coat and put it into Photoshop.
Please note: for some reason, all the copy-pasted images have white backgrounds when I put them into Photoshop. I don't know how well this tutorial will work without the white background, so I recommend putting a white background on all the copy-pasted images if they don't already have one.
Now, we've already run into a problem. If Anna was a male, we could have seen her blank mannequin by simply selecting "Skydancer" without selecting male/female, but since she's a female, we'll have to jump a few hoops. Let's grab the mannequins of two pieces of apparel, ideally two that are small and far apart on the dragon's body. Then layer them on top of each other and erase the area with the apparel on the top layer. If done right, only the blank mannequin should be left! Right click and select "Merge down" on the top layer.
But what do we do next? How do we get the matching parts of the layers out of the way while still leaving the apparel left?
The secret lies in the weird little blend mode near the bottom of the list, known as "Divide". Bascially, the pixels set to Divide do math on the pixels below, making them lighter depending on how dark the pixels above are. If the pixels above and below are the same, or the pixels above are darker than the pixels below, the result will be white. So, if we set the top layer to Divide...
BOOM! The blank mannequin on top has canceled out the mannequin on the bottom, leaving the apparel behind. The coat is a bit lighter than it's supposed to be, but that can be easily fixed! Simply use the Magic Wand tool (make sure "Sample All Layers" is checked!) to select and erase the apparel layer around the coat. Then delete the top layer...
...and now all that's left is the isolated apparel! It looks a tiny bit funny around the edges, but it'll work fine for a preview. Put the picture of the dragon under the apparel layer and you're done! You have an apparel preview!
Money is no object! Nothing will get in the way of your dragons' fashion dreams now!
