Can someone please point me out to a tutorial or thread that involves photoskinning. I use the GIMP. I've already tried photoskinning, but my results are horrible. I want to learn how others can acheive this, perfect lines, clean, beautiful results. Thanks for the help.
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Most of it is having excellent source pictures to begin with. Pics that are small, low-quality, too dark or too bright, or have the clothing laying flat/too wrinkled will result in crappy photoskinning no matter what you do. From there, it's a matter of making sure that all the details end up in the right places - you need to use the uv map for the mesh you're recolouring to make sure all the buttons, pockets, zippers, seams, etc., end up in the right places. I have a tutorial on exporting the uv map for your clothing mesh - look under my profile, or in the BS Skinning tutorial section here.

Make sure you cut out piece by piece - the biggest mistake I think people make photoskinning is just copying the whole thing at once - do it in little sections detail by detail and get each detail in place and then blend the edges. If you can do a selection with feathered edges in GIMP, that helps a lot when copy-pasting each piece.

You may also have to do some hand-painting and adjusting overtop of the photoskinning - very rarely can you just copy-paste and be done. You may have to do a lot of fiddling with it, adjusting shadows and highlights and that sort of thing, until it looks right.

I did a tut for photo skinning on GIMP awhile back. You can find it HERE . I hope that this helps you

riverofjazz-thank you for that link with tutorial))

also a few posts above is one that I did...
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=279087

I'm using an old version of Photoshop. (7.0)
Is there a Photoskinning tut. for it?
-modswat