Difference between revisions of "Tutorials:Body Shop Recolouring Tutorials"

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Introduction

Want to create beautiful clothings, fun makeup, interesting hair, and stunning skintones? This is the place to start, with all sorts of tutorials to teach you every aspect of recolouring Body Shop content.

Clothing Tutorials - Start Here!

If you've never created any Body Shop content before, you should start with clothing. There are two main sets of tutorials that will help you begin creating clothing. If you are using the GIMP, a free graphics editor, you should use the Gimp tutorials. If you are using Photoshop or other higher-end graphics editors, you should be able to follow Faylen's series of skinning tutorials.

Whenever you first do a tutorial, you should do the exact same project they show you, exactly as they tell you to do it. This way you can be sure you're doing your first project correctly. When you finish each tutorial, experiment with the techniques you have learned, trying something similar, a project of your own, before moving on to the next tutorial.

Vashti's Gimp Tutorials

Vashti's tutorials are great for beginners, and give a lot of information on using the GIMP.

Tutorials: Basic Clothing Recolour using The Gimp

Tutorials: Gimp Clothing Tutorial 2 - Using a New Texture

Tutorials: Gimp Clothing Tutorial 3 - Changing the Alpha

Faylen's Skinning Tutorials

If you are using Photoshop or another graphics editor, you can probably follow these tutorials fairly well to figure out how to make new clothing recolours. If you are confused about what tool to use if you are using a different program, try your editor's help file.

Tutorials: Faylen's Skinning Tutorial 1 - Basic Clothing Recolour

Tutorials: Faylen's Skinning Tutorial 2 - Selective Recolour, Adding a Simple Texture

Tutorials: Faylen's Skinning Tutorial 3 - Adding Textures

Tutorials: Faylen's Skinning Tutorial 4 - Working Around the Mesh

Tutorials: How to Add Shadows and Highlights

Other Basic Tutorials

These tutorials are also beginners, designed to introduce them to creating clothing.

Tutorials: Modding with Paint.NET

Toolbox Tutorials

These tutorials relate to clothing, but are specific techniques, tools, and tips helpful to beginners and more experienced skinners alike, for trying something specific.

Tutorials: How to Make a Bump Map for Clothes

Tutorials: How to Make a Top out of a Picture

Tutorials: How to Recolour Custom Mesh Clothing

Tutorials: How to Adapt Skintones and Clothing to Custom Meshes

Tutorials: Beyond Photoskinning: Transformation and Displacement Mapping in Photoshop

Tutorials: Creating Textures from Images

Tutorials: Exporting UV Maps for Better Clothing Recolours

Tutorials: Skinning from the Inside Out

Hair Tutorials

Tutorials: Hair Recoloring Tutorial

Eye Tutorials

Tutorials: Custom Eye Colours Using Photoshop (Beyond Just Recolouring)

Eyebrow/Eyelash Tutorials

Though there aren't any tutorials specifically on making eyebrows, this thread explains exactly how you can make new eyebrows using source pictures: Tutorials on Creating Eyebrows - Solved :). This thread explains a little bit more eyelash-specific: Eyelashes?.

Makeup Tutorials

Again, there are no tutorials specifically on doing makeup. But if you follow

Skintone Tutorials

Skintones are one of the hardest things to recolour, with many textures and requiring a lot of time and effort to do anything but recolouring an existing skintone. If you want to photoskin a skintone, the technique in How to Make a Sim's Face Using Source Pics explains how to pull apart a texture to apply pieces of it to a face. The exact same technique is used, just over and over on the whole body, to create a photoskinned skintone.

Tutorials: Realistic Faces for Skins

Tutorials: Making a New Skintone for Beginners

Tutorials: How to Adapt Skintones and Clothing to Custom Meshes

Simming Tutorials

Tutorials: How to Make a Sim's Face Using Source Pics

Body Shop Modding Tutorials

Tutorials: Changing the Hair Used with a Hat

Tutorials: Changing Makeup Layering and Wearability

Tutorials: Converting Clothes to Different Age Groups

Tutorials: Converting Clothes to Different Genders

Tutorials: Correct Footstep Noises on Skins

Tutorials: Creating Default Skin Replacements - Simplified Method

Tutorials: Default Skin Replacement Tutorial

Tutorials: Give Your Elders an Easy Hair Dye

Tutorials: How to Add Bump Maps to Skins

Tutorials: How do you change the lens colour of glasses?

Tutorials: How to Bin Hair Recolours with SimPE

Tutorials: How to Remove Unwanted Hair Ages

Tutorials: Making Eyes Townie-Friendly