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[Edit]Hi. I made this tutorial a long time ago, and to answer everyone: No, I will not be making any more at this time.
I will locate other helpful files on this topic made by others, though, and list them here:
[link] by ~Jupoxeke
[link] by ~lonelymori
[link] by ~Ethena
[link] by ~emilyro11292
Send me yours!
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If you do that, will blonde hair still be available to use in the game? I don't want to remove it, but the idea of custom hair sounds cool...
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My bodyshop crashes when I want to open load the project 
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I'm probably just having a major "derp" moment.. but after you make the new layer on the hair.. what exactly do you have to do to color it all? >.< I'm using GIMP, though... *is a total graphics n00b*
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It's possible, but if you look at the sheer amount of files that must be opened and edited, it's a logistic pain in the ass. If you don't have Photoshop, a great alternative is a program called GIMP. It takes a little getting used to and can be a little buggy at times, but it has many of the same features as Photoshop including opening multiple files at once and creating new layers for coloring over the original.
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Oh thank you! Finally i know how to colouring the hair by Sims 2! Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!
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When I try to work with hair in the bodyshop, it only gives my one style.
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I haven't messed with it in a good long time. It sounds like your copy of Body Shop might be corrupted. This can sometimes happen on its own, or when you install a lot of custom skins or hair from different places. You might have a graphics card that is out of date.
Sometimes it'll repeat the same pattern for every head, but it really "means" to display the correct file for the hair. There could really be any number of things that cause this to happen.
You might want to check out a forum like modthesims2.com and look around in their troubleshooting, they may very well have already answered a similar question.
I hope all of this helps.
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It started working when I installed an expansion.
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That's great! If that was the case, I bet you had already installed custom hair for a later version (or "expansion")
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Actually, what I think it was was that the bodyshop I had was messed up, and then when I installed an expansion, it installed a new version of body shop that was in working condition.
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I must use this, since I want purple hair. xD Thank you so much!!
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You're very welcome. I'm glad so many people have gotten such great use out of this tutorial. :>
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its is great but one prob, do you leave the 'blond' hair in the file or do you remove them, because i only left my edited hair in the file and the black & white stuff, and once i refreshed it said that the files are wrong
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You have to close out of the black and white files, you don't do anything with them. The blond hair files are the ones you edit, but leave them with the same filename.
I hope that helps, if not maybe explain it again.
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nvm!!! figured out that the name was the key of the prob. my program kept on adding the word 'copy' at the end so thats why it would not work! and you said anyway to leave em with the same name so that gave me the clue!
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Oh man! I forgot Photoshop did that. LOL. Glad you were able to solve the prob!
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yep! you gave me a vital clue for me to solve that! It looks so cool in the game now!! XD btw how do you upload sims screen shots on to dA?
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Well, you can take screenshots by pressing "Print Screen" and pasting it into its own file and saving it. Then upload in the game screen shot section, I'm pretty sure they have one.
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ah! thx! going to edit and upload a really funny screen shot XD
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not the editing part, i understood that but, keeping the original files in the folder with the edited and clicking refresh, i left everything in there, but hair wont turn out to be the color i edited them, once i refresh
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Did you make sure they are 24 bit BMP images?
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This was amazingly helpful. Marry me please.
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LOL.
Well thank you! I'm glad you could benefit from it.
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Thank you! This was indeed VERY helpful! 
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No problem, I am glad you found it helpful!
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Aw this is great + it helped me to make my own coloured hair for my sims!
I would put it available for download, but I am unsure where xD
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I used to put them up on DA under "resources", the sub-category would be "skins".
I get a lot of stuff from modthesims2.com, you can make an account there are upload. Also, on the Maxis Sims2 web site.
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cool, thank you very much (:
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Awshums. Much awshums. *tinkers away at her computer for the next 9 hours* C<
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ok i play the sims a lot and i still dont know how to do ANY of these things yet. any who...i dont have the photoshop on my computer...is there any way that u can do this on paint? please help
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Well, you're going to need a LOT of patience if you want to do it in paint. It involves recoloring EVERY file I mentioned. BUT! If you have Windows Photo Gallery (I think it comes with Vista but maybe XP might have it too) you can click on FIX for every file and mess with the color settings. That would be a lot faster. Let me know if you have any more problems.
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thanx i think i'll get the photoshop...do u know if i can just buy a disk with photoshop on it or does it come with a certain computer?
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You need to buy it. BUT if you have a file sharing program such as Ares or LimeWire, you can get it for free.
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i have limewire so what do i do from there?
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Click on Search and type in Photoshop
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Click on one file that matches most closely what you want, and download it. (Photoshop CS is probably a good idea)
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nd then after i download that i can change my sim's hair?
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Yeah, download and install.
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thx alot.. now i can make me and my girlfrind 100% in the sims 2 xD (she has purple hair)
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No problem! Yeah, I figured it was an important thing to know because I change my hair color a LOT. (It's orange now lol) You're very welcome. :]
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thx alot.. now i can make me and my girlfrind 100% in the sims 2 xD (she has purple hair)
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How do you actually create hair.
Love this tutorial btw.
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This really helped me loads
Do you have any other sims 2 bodyshop tutorials?
x
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Thanks, and unfortunately no. This was the first and only one I made. Most skinning follows the same basic rules, though. Just play around with it, I'll be glad to help you on anything.
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Ok, the colouring tutorial was so good though, becuase I've looked at others but they just confuse me but yours worked!
I'm stuck on how to actually create hair styles though :S
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