need help with colors in skinning and general

I'm pretty new to skinning so i seem to be having allot of problems. The first step i use opening the image in my psp8 is no problem. Then i get to using magic wand to select areas of the skin id like to edit. Then i choose hue/saturation and choose colorize to edit the color of the area without changing the actual texture of the model. So after i get done with this i save as a tga. and go to my image extractor to view what Ive done and the image comes up very odd. Where there used to be black it seems almost iridescent and the colors i changed are not what i had initially done. So i move on to put it in the map through command prompt and just see what it looks like in the game. Well i get the image in there and the character looks translucent in places. "pieces of the features missing" however i don't think i altered anything of the general form. The colors are also not what i had chose in psp8. Lastly my image extractor has a list of skins to choose but i don't see any expansion units. I downloaded this extractor from Tides of blood.com. If anyone can answer any questions id greatly appreciate this.
Thanks in advance, alreadyused;)

Have you tried to flip the picture before converting it to blp?? I'va heard that frmo everyone who are new to skinning that they have the same color problem... So flip the image upside down and then convert it to blp... :D

well i went into psp and flipped my image completely upside down and saved. then opened in wc image extractor and coverted it to blp. Still looks the same colors in the image extractor:bgrun: