3D Kits Tutorial

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For this tutorial I am going to make the West Ham Away kit as an example, first get all the right colours for all sections of the kit.

Once this is done start work on the collar, this is quite easy with 3d kits, as you draw the collar on with the pen tool you will notice it is covering up the hole in the middle, to get the hole back hold down ctrl and click on the little icon next to the shirt layer, now press ctrl, shift and I to invert the selection and finally press delete, this should delete all of the collar that is inside of the hole.

Now start on the front and side designs, eventually you may have a bit of a problem needing to put the design on the other side and it cuts off, do not worry it is reasonably easy to do.

I recommend increasing the canvas size to say 800×800, this is done because then you can see how much is sticking out and then cut and paste it onto the other side, first duplicate the layer you want on the other side, then flip it horizontally, you may have troubles getting it exactly where you want it, try selecting just the front of the shirt then flip it horizontally however this will not flip the back section (if it goes onto the back) so you do the same for the back) Keep doing this until the shirt design is completely finished.

Hopefully now the design should be identical on both halves of the back and front of the kit (unless the design isn’t like that) Now this is done change the canvas size back to 512×512.

Now to start on the shorts, for best results get a selection of width 203, this is exactly half of the shorts length so you have a rough idea where abouts each part of the shorts will go, if the parts need to go onto the other side like the shirt do the same as you did with the shirt.

Now for the arms, the sides of the bar is the end of the arm, I’m not exactly sure what the middle does, if anything, there is usually little design on arms so they are always easy to do, however more complex arm designs will probably take a long time.

The socks is the easiest part and most of the time you can have them done very quickly, whatever you do to the first sock you just copy and paste down to the second

And the finished product