You buy it. Besides which, seriously, GOOGLE is your friend. We're on the web here folks. Paintshop Pro is less expensive (but NOT free - there is a free trial, but you'll just start getting the hang of using it and your trial will be over). Btw, for what we do here an older version of photoshop will do just fine, so you might also be able to find some good web bargains for that.

GIMP is free. You'll need to use tutorials (again, available online) to learn how to use it.

If I want to make a top but I don´t have the back side how can I do it?


Sorry for my bad English :confused:

How can I put only the logo in a top? :confused:


sorry for my bad English

really I need photoshop?

Simtovich - for you to be able to do many of the more complex editing techniques to edit the graphics and make new outfits, you need a graphics editing program that supports LAYERS. Layers are like transparencies (those thin sheets of clear plastic) that you can put different parts of your graphic on. It makes it easy to edit them, you can also make some layers transparent, and use say, the shading from a Maxis garment to shade your new outfit, and so on.

Three program that support layers (there might be more): Photoshop (expensive, but you do not need the newest version!), Paintshop Pro (trial on the web, costs less than photoshop), and GIMP (free, and I found the interface a bit confusing, so you will want to use tutorials to learn your way around)

Actually for any of these programs once you get them, doing some tutorials, particularly ones that teach you how to work with layers - is highly recommended. They are powerful and complex programs, and there's a lot to learn. When I first started working with photoshop, the layers were both wonderful and drove me batty because I'd end up on the wrong layer, edit on the wrong layer, etc. I still sometimes do that, and I've now been using it for years for my job. :P

Putting a logo on a shirt is pretty easy. All you need to do is take the image of the logo, copy it, and paste it onto the shirt. It might get distorted a bit on a female sim, because the image stretches over the body, and you may or may not want to reshape the image to compensate.

I'm a newbie of the sim 2, at first i feel disapointed with the lack of things in the game. And I wish I could make something for my own. Now with this help I'm sure I can make a lot of things. Thank you so much.

.....You ROCK!

the step bu step pictures wont load

Yep. This happened with another tutorial. Looks like the images got moved. I'll fix it.

BTW...

How do you use it with MS Paint?

I don't get it

this isn't fair! my sims 2 body shop won't work can someone help me1

but not everyone haves photoshop
were can i this tutorial find for psp 7?

sorry abaout my english I'm from the netherlands

wow it's that easy thanks now that helps

I've used your tutorial to create clothing with PaintShopPro. The only thing I have problems with are the laye. So I'm not getting the shading right.
Can anyone else help me?

Recolour tut excellent, I mean they all are but I went thur that one eazy pezy but I'm having problems getting the fabric sample big enough when I try to change textures. I got a fabric sample scale it down to about 5in x 5in then copy/pasted about 6 times ending up with a sample about 12 x 12 it covers the sleeves ok but it is still to small to cover the body and I've got no more space left in the original square which is locked and totally filled with pattern. I just left the sleeves changed saved as but also model will not refresh so tried flatten then save as (did the overwrite thing again) still no luck :yech: can anyone help me out I would love to get textures happening

I really loved how you explained everything it was P-E-R-F-E-C-T! Only one problem it's now how you explained it and it's not your fault but I think you can help. I saved and followed instructions carefully but when I went to bodyshop and clicking refreshed nothing happened.


Hope you can help, wudrichj <3

wudrichj and tullycat

Try tutorial #1. http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=39088 This tutorial is the advanced one that assumes you've already gotten all the basic recoloring steps down. I'm sure you are somehow not saving your finished work into the right place.

Also, make sure you are saving as a BMP file and that the filename is not changed at all. That will flatten it automatically. You should see that it's saving to your project inside your projects folder. If you saved it in the wrong place, just copy it to the right place.

To save your project for future edits/usefulness, save it as a photoshop or paintshop format giving it whatever name you want in some folder that's not your projects folder. *do not flatten it*, because then you won't be able to move the fabrics, change the transparencies or anything else fun anymore.

U explained perfect but it will not load when i click refresh sim HELP!!!

i saved in My Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2 Bodyshop/Projects/(project name)/body~stdMatBaseTextureName.psd (it wont save as bmp or else it saves as body~stdMatBaseTextureName.bmp.psd
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i tried that other tutorial and it worked but if i add anything ex. logos its wont load in bodyshop

You need to go find the option that will actually save as a bmp. There should be some filetype choices someplace in your save box. Which verson of photoshop are you using?

When I say 'save as' a window pop up. Underneath my directory listing there is a line that says "Format:" with a pop up menu next to it. I select BMP on that menu. Then I make sure the filename at the top doesn't say anything like 'copy' or whatever in it. (this is photoshop 7, but all versions should have something like that)

thanks for posting this.. it's been a while since i've made skins and i only used to make them for The Sims, not Sims 2 yet.

Okay, question. Instead of copying and pasting the pattern over and over and then piecing together, etc., couldn't I just create a pattern fill in Photoshop? Seems it would be much easier. Maybe I'll try.

And does anyone have any favorite fabric sites they especially like? The ones I have aren't so great because they have teeny little samples that don't repeat, etc.

Tracy