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How to Shade a Skin

Published Nov 7th, 2012, 11/7/12 11:30 pm
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I've seen many skins on PMC that were good, but nobody paid attention to them because they weren't shaded. This is why I made this blog.

This is the simplest way I know of to shade skins. If you know a better way, please let me know.

  1. Download Paint.NET, a free photo editing/creating software.
  2. Make or find a shading template. I suggest the latter. Shading templates are just plain white skins, but shaded.
  3. Copy it, and paste it into a new layer on your skin. Do this by going to 'Edit' and 'Paste into new layer.'
  4. Click 'Layers,' then 'Layer Properties.'
  5. Set 'Blending Mode' in the drop-down menu to 'Multiply.' If the skin is too dark, turn down the opacity until you think it looks good.
  6. If your skin has a hat, copy-paste the head of the shading template over it, then delete the invisible parts.
  7. Press 'Image,' then 'Flatten.' This will combine the bottom and top layer, making it into one.
  8. You're done! Hope this helped!
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05/10/2016 10:41 am
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Foxtrot0806
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that is considered plagiarism, and is against the PMC rules
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12/07/2013 4:05 am
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k-crafter077
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good tutorial. No offence bout dosent using a shading template not by you count as plagiarism. just sayin
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03/18/2013 3:02 am
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deltoraquestgirl
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this is really interesting (and awesome, and easy to use) but do we need paint.net?
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03/23/2013 10:02 pm
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MinecraftAddict1337
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I don't know of any other program where you can do this. Except Photoshop. But that's obviously not free.
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03/24/2013 3:39 am
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deltoraquestgirl
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Okay :3
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11/08/2012 9:22 am
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NorthernGamR
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I can't begin to describe how much this has helped. I had downloaded Paint.NET a while ago. But I thought i had installed it wrong and that it would not work. But when you posted this I tryed to open paint and it worked. Long story short i have made 3 good skins since last night because of this... Thanks man
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11/08/2012 1:45 pm
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MinecraftAddict1337
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No problem, glad to know I helped!
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