Adding Lip Color Layers to Textures

Author: poconopixie

Tools Needed

* DAZ/Studio

* Paint Shop Pro

* Photoshop

* The Gimp

Support Files

* V4LipColors_PaintShopPro.zip

* V4LipColors_Photoshop.zip

This tutorial will show you how to use those PSD lip color files to add new lip color to character textures and apply them in DAZ/Studio. This tutorial assumes you have a working knowledge of your graphics program. I am using Paint Shop Pro X, but the steps should be the same or similar in Photoshop and The Gimp. A layered lip color file has been provided with this tutorial and includes 10 lip colors perfectly placed to copy and paste onto Victoria 4 head textures.

To start, open the included Lip Color file in your graphics program. Also open the head texture of your choice. For this tutorial, I am using the Victoria 4 Standard Resolution texture, which can be found here:

/runtime/textures/DAZ/characters/milwom/V4/V4StFaceMJPG

Of course, this tutorial can be applied to any character and texture.

The provided lip colors are for a 3000 x 3000 texture, so be sure to resize the file to the applicable size of your texture. The above texture is 2048 X 2048, so I have resized the file to that resolution for this exercise.

All of the lip colors are placed on layers and are positioned to need very little, if any, fiddling when pasted on your texture. They have also been masked so that there are no harsh lines and look more natural. Find a lip color you like and be sure the layer is selected. Now hit “Ctrl C” on your keyboard to copy the layer. Then, select your head texture and paste the copy as a new layer on your texture.

Now save the texture with a new name to the same folder.

Open DAZ/Studio. Load your figure and the texture. In this case I am loading Vicky 4.1 with her standard resolution texture.

Click on the Surfaces tab and locate the “Lip” surface. Select it and then click there arrow next to the image name under “diffuse”. See screenshot. Browse for the image you saved and select it. The new lip color will be applied.

And here's a render of Vicky with her new lip color.