Sims 3 Talk:Creating Custom Clothing Stencils

You might need to add an alternate to the last step of part 3 and all of part 4 for GIMP users. Most the rest is the same, but the way GIMP handles alpha channel is a little different than Photoshop.

In part 3 step 3, if you flatten the image, any transparency of the visible channels is discarded, so all that nice work you did cleaning up the edges of the picture will be lost. Instead, if you just delete the other layers, you end up with an image with one layer which has transparency.

For part 4, in GIMP, if you have transparency you have an alpha channel. So as long as you don't flatten the image, all of part 4 is unnecessary for GIMP users. Tiger 04:37, 24 June 2009 (CDT)