The reason we partnered with Photopea is to give CTA users a FREE image editing option. Photoshop is still the recommended choice but not everyone can afford (or want) a monthly subscription. Photopea is a great alternative for those who don't use Adobe products.


                                                                

Peter
Forum Administrator

www.reallusion.com

Users have been asking for suggestion on which free programs that work best with CTA4.
Photopea has been chosen when they made the upgrade. 




YouTube Tutorials Here

I can't understand why CTA 4 is now bundled with Photopea but all demo videos use Photoshop?
Not very helpful for new users.

Hi Joe,

I've done tutorials on converting a Freepik character into a CA4 character.
I believe they will address your problem.

ps. I use Affinity Designer for my CA4 character creation.

Thanks.





YouTube Tutorials Here

Hello vepop,

Yay, I found a way to extract all of the body parts from my 2 characters using GIMP.  I would still be interested to hear what software you use and if there are any videos/tutorials for this type of image editing.

Thanks, as always,
Joe

Thanks again vepop!

Unfortunately, these 3 videos do not address what I need to proceed.  :(  I'm looking for videos/tutorials for how to take one high res PNG image and cut out/save each of the individual body parts.  In other words, I have 1 PNG file for both characters and I want to create separate PNG files for each body part as I "cut" them out of the original full character PNG file.  I currently have Photopea from the CA4 Pipeline Trial and GIMP for my image editing software on Windows 10.

I look forward to hearing from you again,
Joe

You're the best vepop!

Prior to posting my previous reply, all of the videos that I found didn't show exactly what I was looking for.  I'll give all 3 of your videos a try and hopefully I'll be all set so I can leave you alone.  :)  I'll be sure to let you know the results when I try them over the next couple of days.

Many thanks again for your time,
Joe

How to convert a Freepik character into a Cartoon Animator 4  character.:-
youtube.com/watch?v=Dps0D4GVu3U


YouTube Tutorials Here

Tutorials:-
Part 1 :https://vimeo.com/372782250

Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdfeyRjjBwE


Hopefully, these two tutorials help.


YouTube Tutorials Here

Thanks vepop!
OK, I'm starting to get the hang of this.  I will use "Philipp" who is a G3 360 character template to create my 2 new characters.
I see from the tutorials that I have to re-map all of the body parts and replace the sprites.  Is this correct?  If so, do you know of a good tutorial for how to save all of the individual body parts (i.e. hip, left arm, left hand, left thigh, left foot, etc.) using either Photopea or GIMP?  I have high res front facing transparent PNG files for both characters.  What program do you use for this type of image editing?
Thanks again,
Joe