Teach me pliz

Ok, i dont know where to post this, but i think that this is the right place.

Can someone pliizz teach me a lil skining, just a little, with paint or something i don't know...

you cant really teach skinning its just something that comes naturally like drawing a picture everyone has their own style and you should figure out yours but you can look at the stickied "Skinning techniques" or something like that and that will have small tutorials on how to make some cool textures and things. also dont use paint to skin

You will need Wc3veiwer and Photoshop, for skinning you just need to know basics til you fully understand it and start to build up your own style, for example my style is usually very dark and evil while some one like Garnogal has a style of making his skin super High-Res and very pro looking.

You need to know how to use the following things in Photoshop:

- Burn and Dodge (important for shading and doing alot of other work)
- Smudging (remodelling parts and so on)
- Sharpen (used for unblurring your work)
- Blur (your not stoopid are you??? LOL)
- Lasso (SP?) (selecting parts and working on them eg, shoulder pads
- Filters (giving finishing touches or making cool ass looks)

You can also use the techniques thread which I dunno where it is now

Just ask questions here and we will help as much as possible.

Words Of Advice: Dont re-colour, Dont Copy and Paste and certainly DO NOT EVER CnP someone elses work and claim it as your own.

if you say DO NOT RECOLOR to a guy that have never skinned before. well, i have skinned for some months and i still think its VERY hard to have a good looking skin
without it beeing a recolor, hmm maybe i need to read more tutorials. but whatever i suggest you start with simple recolors then go more and more freehand ;)

Yeah.
And btw, ill go get fhotoshop from my friend tomorow, and how do you make a skin? just open the .blp in the photoshop and change it? or some difirent way? and how do you save skins?

open up wc3viewer, find the skin you want to work on in the mpq, then extract it as a tga... blps dont work in photoshop. once you're done, convert the tga you worked on into blp.

ok got it.
And fow i have to know how to, well ok, for example, eem, how to make a bloody say villager?
(explane it to me pliz)

well i can't tell you how you would want the skin to look :P but pick your blood color paint it then shade it using dodge and burn its pretty easy! need more details about skinning just contact me on AIM or Msn (see my profile) and i would be glad to help ;)

OT: jesus is there a program that can correct your english grammar aoutomatically :S i really suck at it lol :D

Use a program like word pro (that's just what I use) to write the script in there so the misspelled words are highleted automatically and it gives you a choice of words that match what your trying to type, its a great way to prevent misspells.
Oh and 1 questing about the skin, well i made it (doesent look GORRIBLE tho ) but i wanted to ask, can i make it so the skin's blps wont be semetric well what i mean is, eem i duno how to explane it, here are screenies to show you. (i want the blood to be only on ONE side not on both sides)

well im afraid thats impossilbe... ut on the blood looks horrible ;) do you have photoshop yet?? then i can teach you how to shade :D

I have photoshop and i did this as an experiment, so you can teach me how to shade?

Open some skins that are free handed (like mine ^_^ ) and u can see where to shadow using the Burn and Dodge tool , use Burn and Smudege tool to do metal gray of courese)

Heey! that's not so ba- ok i wont lie , it couldv been worse xD
well now you figured out how to skin, just mess around with some skins :P then try to ''''freehand'''' some.. :) and btw if you only want there to be 1 bloodsplat make it in the middle, so when it gets mirrored its only 1 big bloodsplat on his tummy, lol :) that would be ugly..

Ok. When i will have time to make a skin, ill show you.

I got a lil time, so i made this:
My first ever skin, "Agent Smith"