I'm new at Poser but I'm great in Photoshop and Illustrator and I would like to make clothing for my models without dowloading other programs.

Is there a way I can take my model and my Illustrator clothing to merge them into Photoshop to make clothing.

If any tips on how to making clothing or props with only the programs: Poser 7 and Adobe Photoshop CS3 (no extend) and Illustrator CS3 would help.

REMINDER: I don't want to download any outside programs...I want to work with what I got

Thanks!

I'm tempted to say that it simply can't be done, but then someone would describe a long, complicated method which would prove me wrong.

What I will say is that neither Photoshop nor Illustrator has anything to do with 3D modelling. OK for making textures and tarting up your renders, though.

OK I've had a long hard think and I challenge anyone to tell me otherwise, but I'd say your chances of making clothing without an 'outside program' are ZERO. Really, forget it, it ain't gonna happen.

tho.... Illustrator could make the clothpanels... then you'd import those into a modeling program... hmmm......

Well, you can't make clothing models in illustrator to use in Poser. IF your skill is good enough, though, you can draw a picture of clothing to fit over the rendered picture of your Poser figure. IT takes a fair amount of skill to gt the lighting, textures, and compositing right, but it can be done. 'Simply' render your naked poser figure, and save the rendered image.

Now, to be honest, I'm a bit lost why you want to work in Illustrator and then bring the image into Photoshop, when you could either place the rendered image into Illustrator and create the clothing there - in which case why transfer it to Photoshop? - or open the render image in Photoshop, and use the tools there to create the clothing - in which case, why involve Illustrator? To get a good fit for the clothing, you're going to need to use the poser image as reference whichever package you decide to use for the clothing, so why involve the other?

JonTheCelt

Well, i was thinking like to pose a model on Poser 7, import to Photoshop then draw over her with Illustrator...

I'm just wondering if it will look good. I don't mind it not looking realistic...but i don't want it to look cut and paste.

You're asking if you can do modelling with three non-modeling programs.  I'll go ahead and say it simply, no you can't.  You need a modeling program to model.  Poser does a little super simple stuff, but it's mostly manipulating little simple things.

There are free modelling programs, so if it's a money thing, there's that.

If you want a non-modelling program to model I suggest notepad.  ;)

Schtumpy: no, he's asking if it's possibel to create an image with a poser figure and illustrator-created clothing. He said nothing about modelling at any point.

My only query is why Photoshop needs to be brounght into the equation. Poser renders out to standadr image formats, so illustrator can import it easily enough.

JonTheCelt

the only way I can see doing it,  and sorry.. the only way is with a modeling program, is this :

Design the article in Illustrator
export as an EPS or AI file
Import EPS/AI into Modeler that supports this (I know trueSpace does)
Use results to conform to Base Mesh
carry on as normal as for making clothes.

AniUmi,

yes..it is possible to pose yr model and then use photoshop to illustrates the clothes on it. I couldnt remember but there is someone frm the marketplace whom has sell some tutorials on clothes and even illustrating hair on the model. try searching for ADDY..which might be the artist.

hope its helps

richard

Quote - Well, i was thinking like to pose a model on Poser 7, import to Photoshop then draw over her with Illustrator...

I'm just wondering if it will look good. I don't mind it not looking realistic...but i don't want it to look cut and paste.

Yes, you can pose a model in Poser, render it and then paint clothes over it. Once you render out an imahe of a poser figure, you just save it as a tiff or a jpg, of some other prefered raster image file, and have at it in Photoshop or Illustrator or most other paint programs.
Whether it will look good or not depends on your painting skills, and how much time you want to invest in it.

How come you don't want to use any additional utilities? One of the neat things about Poser is the availability of a number of utilities and content to help in creating things.

I would like to but time is short for me to learn a new program. If theres anything that easy to learn share...also free. That'll be great! but it for a portfolio and that due next week...

Be sure to make a displace map in Photoshop to use with your textures to match lighting/shadow  features of your figure and for reality in your folds etc.