Avatar skins are a surprisingly crucial aspect of your virtual world appearance. There’s nothing that shouts “Noob!” like an outdated skin. Check the Ruth avatar to see what I mean.
Linden Lab Avatar Skins
Linden Lab provides quite a few free avatars in the Library part of your Inventory. You can mix and match various pieces of these avatars to get started with creating your own custom look. The pictures in this folder show the various full-perm skins in the Library with the same shape so you can see the differences in the skins. Some of the skins include a t-shirt and briefs as part of the skin; these cannot be removed. The boxer shorts on some of the skins are separate.
To access the Linden Lab outfits, open Inventory. You'll see two main folders, Inventory and Library. The Library folder contains all of the things provided by Linden Lab for you to use in Second Life. Open the Clothing folder in the Library to see the outfits. When you drag an outfit folder onto your avatar, you will be wearing everything in the folder, and a copy of the folder and its contents will appear in your Inventory, in your own Clothing folder. Once you have done that for several (or all) of the Library outfits, you can mix and match whatever pieces you want.
Modifying any of these skins requires using graphics programs like Photoshop or Gimp, and I don’t know how to do it, so I can’t explain it. Try out the free skins from the Library, and the other free skins that are included in this package. Remember that the shape that you wear will alter somewhat how the skin looks.
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