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Hair Texturing Kit

Kev914Kev914 Posts: 1,126
edited June 2016 in The Commons

I bought the following product...

http://www.daz3d.com/hairtexturingkit

because I wanted to try my hand at painting with some special brushes. When I unzip the file, there is a document called Manifest.dsx and one called Supplement.dsx. So what program do you need to open them?

And in a folder, there files in a preset folder. There are 39 hair texture jpgs, a photoshop file and an abr file.

So are you really suppose to put all these files in the preset folder for Photoshop?

From the product page, I think the photoshop file .psd allows you some how to use the package with Paintshop Pro. I think I read that on the product page.

But how do you use the textures? Do you use them somehow to paint the hair? Maybe select colors from them and then paint?

Thanks.

Depending on how I do with this, I'll probably buy some of Ron's brushes. But I wanted to be sure that I would use them. Do his brushes come with instructions? Or a tutorial perhaps?

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  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 4,090

    You would use this with the hair template in your paint program of choice to create new hair textures ...... the abr file is a brush file the psd is probably a layerset of the textures ....... I don't know about the .dsx files but I use GIMP

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,692

    Those .dsx files are what DIM uses to install them, you can ignore them.

  • DestinysGardenDestinysGarden Posts: 2,553

    Kevin, that is a really good question. I even have that kit.

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/74272/texturing-with-destinysgarden#latest

    See you over there. wink

  • Kev914Kev914 Posts: 1,126

    Thanks for the responses. And especially to Destiny for creating a tutorial in her thread which she linked above.

    I didn't use the DIM or Daz Connect to install this. Firstly because I didn't see this. And secondly because the DIM will put it in the Daz Studio folders and then I will have another empty folder in DS since there are no directly useable files.

     

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,692
    KevinH said:
    secondly because the DIM will put it in the Daz Studio folders and then I will have another empty folder in DS since there are no directly useable files.

    No, it won't, it will put it in the location you said Photoshop was installed to.

     

  • Kev914Kev914 Posts: 1,126
    Fixmypcmike said:
    KevinH said:
    secondly because the DIM will put it in the Daz Studio folders and then I will have another empty folder in DS since there are no directly useable files.

    No, it won't, it will put it in the location you said Photoshop was installed to.

     

    This was only partly true for some of Ron's brushes. It put the brushes in the Photoshop Brush folder, but some of the other files it put under the General folder in the daz directory. Before I installed, I checked to see if Photoshop was in the settings and it was. I don't remember adding it, but it was there. After the brushes were installed, I checked to see where the files were installed. That's how I know where they went.

    Just the same, thanks for telling me this. I didn't realize that DIM would install anywhere but to Daz Studio.

     

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