i have done many recolors but how do you change something from black to white i cant do it using this tutorial

deadlykitty - #1 'white' clothing should be made light gray so they will display well in game.

#2 you're right, trying to turn something black (which is probably dark gray) to light is going to give you problems, even if you put the part you want to change on a new layer, it will be difficult to lighten it enough (you need to know how to use your graphics program, they can darken and lighten images) and still retain detail. You'll have to play with it. Better would be to find the lightest version of the garment you can, desaturate it, and then try to get it to be light gray with shading on it.

thank you very much :P

Thanks for the tutorial it was great! I installed gimp ad I was a little confused but it worked magicaly thanks again faylen!

Yay! Thank you SO much for this tutorial. I really appreciate it. When I made the recolor, I was SO proud of myself. *Laughs* The tutorial was easy to follow and very helpful. Again, thank you.

Thnks!! I made a pon shirt!!

Thank you so much, your tutorial was so easy to follow. You have made me a very happy lady x

But now i have to spend all my time recolouring stuff, and i will become one with my sims... pah how bad

Thank you so very much. This was very well written and the pictures helped a lot. Plus, I admire your patience.

This is a great tutorial, but I'm really not good at this and I still need help

When I try to open the texture file on Photoshop, there's nothing in the file "tutorialdress", it's empty ! I guess I can't open it with Photoshop because the file type is for Paint Shop Pro, but I don't know how to change that ^^"

Wonderful tutorial. Thank you!

Garfunkel6658 - photoshop should be able to open up a bmp file just fine. Are you looking in the correct folder?

Thank you sooooooo much for this!!! I'm slow at the get go, but ur easy to read with picture layout really helped! ^.^
Much Kudos to you!

wow Thank you so Much for this I apreciate it!
xx

great, striaght forward tutorial, now i can mess around with the colours 'til my hearts content!

Youn are unhumanly helpful! This is great! I CAN RECOLOUR!

That was SO helpful to me! Now I know the basics of recoloring ^^
Some day if I become a famous recolor-er, I owe most of it to you

Just one thing - do you have to save files at the resolution Body Shop makes the files in, or can you go larger? (without distorting the ingame textures, that is)?

bodyshop files need to be 1024x1024 for clothing (except toddler is smaller). Using larger sizes gains nothing as the game seems to scale them if you do

how do I get the body shop like your pics ?

simscrazy, bodyshop comes with the game.

Thank you for this tutorial!, I had a little trouble at first but that was me being me lol.

Everything works perfectly now and it was so easy to understand.

Fantastic tutorial. Very clear and easy to understand.

I just recoloured my first dress. So proud!

Hey, really nice work. Thank you...
But, i have a problem, and I feel like jerk for asking something that is probably very simple, but believe me I am out of options . So I followed every single step just the way it is said and I have Photoshop 7, so it is practicly the same. And after I refreshed the sim's dress it was all wrong-both it looked like the girl was naked, and the color was quite pale. So I read all the posts, found the FAQs; foung callum91's tip about the graphics, fowolled it...and it is still the same. Nothing changed. I am really sorry if you have alredy answerd something like/or my question, I just couldn't find it. I would really appreciate ur help! Thanks in advance!!

There's no "Thanks!" button on this tutorial, so here is my official THANKS!

I love getting started this way with the simple use of Photoshop Hue / Saturation tools. I am also interested in retexturing, not just recoloring so will continue reading your tutorials. Very clear and concise. I felt you left nothing to the imagination - except color choice, of course! Cheers!

jumisko - I believe you should see a 'thanks' button at the end of the first message? I do