The first thing to do is start working on the face. The face is the key to a good skin - if the face looks bad, the whole skin is ruined.
I’ve selected a picture that I want to use for Peter Criss’s face.
The image is at a slight angle, so I will have to rotate the image so that the mid line of the face is as close to vertical as possible.
This is done by a trial-by-error process. I just guess and try out an angle, and judge from the result if I need to increase or decrease the angle.
From the menu bar, select Image, then choose Rotate (Ctrl+R).
This image needs to be slightly rotated to the left. Enter an angle and press OK.
The image has now been rotated where the face is no longer at an angle.
Now, the image needs to be resized to match the face in the .raw file.
In the .raw file, notice that the face is not in the right proportion. The face has been reduced in height and increased in width. We need to do the same with the Peter Criss picture. For the completed skin to look correct, it is important to make sure that the eyes, nose, and mouth match up exactly (or as close as possible) to the original face. Therefore, we simply cannot just cut-and-paste from the Criss image. We have to resize first. Again, this is just guesswork... try something out. If it doesn’t look right, click UNDO and try again until you get it right. This is a time-consuming process, but with time and practice, your guessing will get much better.
Select Image from the menu, then select Resize (Shift+S). The Resize dialog box will appear.
The easiest way to change the size is to use the Percentage of Original option. First, deselect the Maintain aspect ratio option. Enter the percentages you would like to change the image. As I said before, this is just guesswork.
We need to increase the width of the image. I have chosen to increase the width to 130% of the original size. I’ve decreased the height to 80% of the original image.
It took several trials to arrive at this combination, but these numbers give a fairly good match to the eyes, nose, and mouth of the face in the original skin.
The resized image can be seen on the next page.
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