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Clothing Tutorials

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.

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

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

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