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Originally Posted by markyd33psu
^ I haven't been using templates... I've just been breaking them all down myself. I used hi-res product pics of the black/white colorways of the 5-Tool, Fuse, Clipper, and now the two Huarache models, cut the midsoles/outsoles apart and re-aligned them so they all fit in proportion to each other and could be interchanged (i.e. putting Shox and MCS cleats on the 5-Tool, or a Huarache midsole on the Fuse, etc.), re-aligned the uppers so they were proportional to each other and fit on each midsole, and then I just cut the upper layers apart, organizing them in a way that I could just go through layer-by-layer and color the shoe appropriately. It takes about 20-30 minutes (for me at least) to break a shoe down like that, and then it's not too tough to just color it after that. It takes a little bit longer if I need to do something special (i.e. Reyes' midsole wedge on his 5-tools instead of a full-length midsole), but now that I have most of them organized already, I can move through them pretty quick.
I'm assuming you've used Photoshop in the past, so I hope that made sense... if you haven't, my bad.
By the way... just so this doesn't turn into a sneaker art thread, I've decided that I'm only going to post PS pics once a week from now on. (Nobody's said anything, but I'm sorry if I've bugged anyone by posting them.) PM me if you have any requests... I just want to keep it smooth and clean in here.
Ok. Thanks for the info. I was just wondering because I wanted to start doing some on my own.