[center]FAQ?[/center] Future site of a space to address/link to answers about frequently asked questions?

[center][u][b]Resources[/b][/u][/center] [b]Official Site Resources[/b] [url=https://thetatteredworld.com/page/custom-item-rules]The Rules[/url] - contains all the basic info about how submitting pieces works and what size and file format you need the final pieces to be in, and guidelines about style and content. [url=https://thetatteredworld.com/page/custom-item-tutorial]Tutorial[/url] - Find a .psd file for the avatars and a mannequin head here. Also some thoughts on making/coloring/editing items with links to a couple of basic video walkthroughs by Diana. [url=https://tatteredworld.com/community/users/shops]User Shops List[/url] - Browse the latest wares and easily visit individual shops to see more items by a specific player! [b]Community Resources[/b] [url=https://thetatteredworld.com/forum_subcategories/102/forum_topics/8388]Custom Item Resources[/url] - Official and unofficial resource files gathered by the community. Swatches, mannequin parts, and templates! [url=https://thetatteredworld.com/forum_subcategories/102/forum_topics/9490]Unofficial Color Scheme Swatches[/url] - Shazz's collection of reference sheets of swatches from the various remnants. [url=https://thetatteredworld.com/forum_subcategories/102/forum_topics/8892]Custom Items Recolor Wishlist[/url] - A great place, as a creator, to see what colors are currently popular and what people wish there was more of out there in custom item land. [url=https://thetatteredworld.com/forum_subcategories/21/forum_topics/9929]So You Want A Custom Item[/url] - thread by Shazzbaa with general advice on custom items and some advice for folks who are uncertain about getting into to doing custom items. [url=https://thetatteredworld.com/forum_subcategories/102/forum_topics/9930]How To: Recolor an Item in Photoshop[/url] - Ruevian's guide for recoloring existing site items into custom colors using Photoshop.

[center][b]Item Sizes Quick Reference[/b][/center] Here's a quick list of what sizes your artwork needs to be when you submit customs items and kith! All items should be saved at 72 pixels per inch resolution and [b]must[/b] be saved as transparent .PNG files. [b]Custom Avatar Items[/b] All avatar items -[b] 200x250 pixels[/b] All avatar thumbnails - [b]100x100 pixels[/b] [b]Custom Kith [/b] All kith - [b]200x200 pixels[/b] All kith thumbnails - [b]48x48 pixels.[/b] Please see the[url=https://tatteredworld.com/page/custom-item-rules] Rules[/url] for further suggestions and information on how to submit items!

Thread open! I'm going to kick this off by asking creators a question! [i] What is the number one thing you wish you'd known before you started making custom items? The big, almost life-changing thing you learned as you worked? [/i] For me, I know I just did not expect recolors of custom items to be a big thing and vastly underestimated the importance of setting up my files to be easily recolored. So many files where I have a base color and then a mess of shading all lumped together on a second layer which has made adjusting colors and shading, uh, challenging, in some cases. I've been going back to some older pieces I like and picking these apart for future me, but I wish past me had known and not left all this work for current me.

Oh big agree on setting up for recolors down the road [s]rip my couple private items tbh but we'll, at least those aren't ones people will ask me for recolors[/s] I think my biggest thing is like, you may be surprised at what gets popular/sponsors? I've had things get sponsored that I wasn't expecting anyone to like but me, and others where I spent a lot of time on/thought would be popular and weren't as much as I thought. So basically just like, go with what you would like imo, cause you never know what might catch someone's eye!

I’m seconding the nicely separated layers thing. Also adding: I wish past me realised that it makes more sense to redraw items over the chest rather than attempting to just use transform tool and minor edits. My earlier items have a lot of issues with looking strange in different poses because I wanted to avoid redrawing, but erasing all the lines around the chest and completely redrawing for fem vs masc bases both looks better to me, and is easier to work with in the future. (A lot of the layering got mushed and became harder to work with for recolours) A very minor one, but for clothing submissions specifically - including a colour name for your first item, and saving the description in a text file somewhere. Naming colour saves you having to get the item renamed if you make recolours later, ensures the item isn’t assigned a different colour name later, and prevents forum item code breaking due to updates! Saving description just helps when you’re trying to submit recolours and don’t remember at all what you wrote haha.

[quote="MagpieM"] [i]What is the number one thing you wish you'd known before you started making custom items? [/i] [/quote] Haha, mine is setting up for recolours, too! Though in a slightly different way. I did plan for making different colours, I just didn't plan......... in a way that worked well with TW items. [url=https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/359556256681295882/607378738744918026/tw_tipsandtricks.png][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/359556256681295882/607378738744918026/tw_tipsandtricks.png[/img][/url] the other big Mindblowing Thing That Maybe Everyone Else Knew Already was how much gradients can help. Steph actually showed me this when I was fighting with my very first premium item, the Spider Queen Dress -- the shading and everything was fine, but just adding a basic colour gradient over top took it the extra step from "oh that looks nice" to "DANG I LOVE THIS" [img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/359556256681295882/607379718374817831/tw_tipsandtricks2_gradient.png[/img] Most of my premium items now make use of gradients, even if they're subtle; they make a huge difference -- and that's another thing that's easy to lock-transparency and slap a new colour on there if you end up wanting to do a recolour!

Yes! The way Shazz shows in her Current Method is the way I do mine these days. Soooo much easier for recolors!

Oh man yeah I tried to do the multiply method with my first items and realized the same thing!! Shows me for not just following the suggested tutorial lol

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