Guides Beginner Intro to Creating Custom Textures/Skins

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Beginner Intro to Creating Custom Textures/Skins - A 13 minute tutorial introducing texture editing for VAM

Outline:

1. Rundown of texture types
2. Where to start when creating a new skin
3. The two major challenges - seams and color matching
4. Demo: Using frequency separation in GIMP to color match a new feature:
   • Duplicate layer
   • Gaussian blur the duplicate until all desired details are lost
   • Set blurred layer mode to Grain Extract
   • Create New Layer from Visible; set that new layer to Grain Merge mode,
     and return the blurred duplicate mode to Normal

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