Thanks, I started to notice this to be true as i progressed, wouldn't know enough to mod the legs, but I'm sure someone will crank some tiny skirts out before I master it! If not I can always cut up some clothing that is tight to the body, I'm trying to create a 80's style girl rock band for my project and throw them together in a house for mass chaos. Thanks again for confirming what I was noticing! Happy simming!

If someone can indicate how to do this with non skin tight clothing, such as skirts, this would be even sweeter. Because as you would expect due to the mesh, clearing parts of the alpha channel still leaves the big skin toned bell shape on the skirt. I TRIED to use the tutorial for meshing to correct and get rid of, but sadly the skirt like meshes i found in the massive list of alphanumeric stuff in the packages come with legs, and with my limited vertext skills, moving the skirt moves the legs and makes midgets or NBA players. I don't know how to seperate legs or reshape, just drag around vertex points. I'm sure there is a better way of doing it or a better mesh to mod. I thought in sims2 if you got the mask AND multiplier correct, the mesh wouldnt show up like that but all i get is big skin colored clothing Any tips from the pros? I've mastered every other tutorial around and am ready to get back into my modding. Been out since sims2 and i was getting pretty good.

Thanks to EVERYONE for their hard work on this.

Dejah:

You have to select the alpha channel to edit it, or it is locked. Unless there is something else going on I forgot, when you uncheck the RGB channels (under channels tab) be sure to click the alpha channel box (not the select icon, but highlight the channel itself) then you can edit it. Hope that helps.

I was hoping one of you photoshop guru's would be kind and merciful.. I followed the tutorial, but i fall apart when you get to creating the layers.
The docs say create a layer, fill with yellow twice, then add another layer, fill with yellow. When I do that, they just seem to be two layers of solid colors. There is no yellow on red article of clothing like the tutorial says. I cannot figure out the correct procedure to create these layers correctly, and ALSO cannot figure out how to 'merge these and save as their own file'. Can someone whip up a paragraph with more detail ? pweease? Im ok with directions, I just don't know much about layers. Sounds dumb I know because I know its simple, just something I am doing out of order. Thanks for your help!

Kev