Unless you’re making clothes with a flat colour you will find that you have seam lines down the sides, arms and legs that depending upon what fabric/colour design you have can be quite noticeable.

Blue Velvet Ballgown With Seams

The velvet fabric (from Lauren Fox’s Lauren’s Tiling Textures) that I’ve used gives me sharp seam lines which look out of place. One way of getting rid of or reducing the sharpness of the seam lines is to smudge the fabric texture along the seams. I used the AvPainter programme and it’s inbuilt smudge tool to soften the seam lines on the clothes for the ballgown top, glitch pants and gloves. (You will need to buy the full AvPainter programme if you wish to be able to save any changes you make to your clothes.)

Blue Velvet Ballgown With Seam Blurred

Although smudging hasn’t completely removed the seam, it has certainly removed the sharp edge and made the seam a lot less noticeable. It can be fiddly and take some time but it does improve the overall look of the outfit.

Here’s what my images files look like that created the top, glitch pants and gloves for the velvet ballgown (minus the red cut out shapes and clothing templates):

Blue Velvet Ballgown Dress (Shirt File) Blue Velvet Ballgown (Pants File)

Blue Velvet Ballgown (Gloves File)