Tutorials:Body Shop Recolouring Tutorials
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
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)
Skintone Tutorials
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: 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