Hey thanks heaps
I already recoloured some hair as soon as i finished the dress

Help! i dont have a dialog menu. there isnt one on my gimp.

Thankyou! This is very useful!

I did it. This was my very first successful attempt at modifying something! :hug: Thank you! do you have one for hair? I wanna try that next

Good Guide
 

Great guide.

I enjoyed reading it and creating the new "personalised" object.

Colors mixing?
 

Hi there, nice tutorial, I'm having an issue though. I followed everything you had here, up to where I want to save. I'm on a mac, so it does the whole 'your image should be exported before it can be saved cause bmp plug-in can't handle layers' thing. If I choose 'merge visible layers' and hit 'export', everything looks fine in GIMP, but when I preview in body shop the dress is a completely different color than red! It's like the colors of the green background layer and the red new layer are mixing when the visible layers are merged? I don't know how to fix it...
A screen shot of the saved GIMP, and how it looks in bodyshop.

Cant find the dialogs box (step 18) to compleate the recolor, can anyone help???!

Bitmaps can't have layers at all... whether you're on a PC or a Mac. I'm thinking that maybe something is going wrong while exporting... that perhaps only certain layers are being exported. I would suggest flattening the whole image and just doing a straight "save" (not "export").

I am on a Mac too and I just started trying this tonight... had the same problem at first. When you go to save and the menu pops up, choose the option that says "flatten image" instead of "merge visible layers" (which is the default for some reason). Then click Export. Then go into bodyshop and have it reload your file, it should come up the right color now. **Also, if you can't see the texture of the dress underneath your recolor once you do this, change the filter to Soft Light instead of Hard.

I typed up a help file for how to do the second tutorial on Mac, if anyone wants it.

Help? I just installed GIMP. There is no dialogues or hard light on my version. It's the newest version, I think (it's august 2009, if the date helps) I got all the way to step 17, and then found out that i can't find any of the buttons on the toolbar to follow the next directions. does anyone know what i've done wrong?

hey i have gimp 2, and i dont have the layer box thing, cause i shut it down by accident and now it wont come up! :S im like wtf!
other than that its all good.. do you no how to get this box back haha?

I had the same problem, after a lot of searching I found it under windows =>
recently closed docks => layers, channels, paths...

Hope I helped .

I was trying to follow your steps, but I must not have the right gimp installed because i didnt see any dialog box anywhere. so I uninstalled gimp and went to your link to reinstall the right version, but i didnt see any version 2. 6. 9 on there, can someone help me? they only had 2.6.6 and 2.6.7.

edit: i just redownloaded it and it still doesnt have a dialog box

I don't know about Body Shop, but make sure you put the settings for Sim/Object Detail in-game to High. ;D

I dont have dialogs help

for everyone look for dialogs

its under add tab in layers,undo and other stuff

I cant find hard light on the 2009 version chould someone be nice and help me please

I did everything easily (thanks!) but when i came to refreshing the dress in the bodyshop it didn't come up.... did i do something wrong?
btw thanks for making the tute so easy to understand!

On the top toolbar click on windows and go down to select dockable dialogs then find layers on the choice bar that comes up, it should open another window and on that window it will say normal with a down arrow next to it, click the arrow and go down to find hard light.

I dont have a dialouge box u cant even download 2.6.9 apparently i cant find it anywhere the link u have provided downloads the 2.6 version.

So i was doing fine untill the part about the clicking on layers under dialouges. I can't find the dialouge button!

On the new version, you have 3 boxes open. 1 is the toolbox, 2 is the window you are creating in, and 3 is the Layers, Channels, Paths... Look in box 3, the very first tab (looks like white towels folded up) is the Layers section. Directly below that tab is the word LAYERS and then below that is MODE. If you click on the dropdown box to the right of MODE, you will find what you are looking for!

WOW WOW and did i say WOW!!!!
 

* Hugs Computer Screen * EEE thank you!!! I've always wanted to re-do some of the Maxis Clothing and now i can!!! :lovestruc Ur the best ^__^

Everything worked perfectly in the tutorial until you said to click "dialogue". I don't see that as an option, and I can't find where else I could select "hard light".

Well..
 

I use gimp to make clothing etc. for other games, to make it not as blurry, you save it as a different file type.

:D