well done. thanks

Wow, that is amazing. Looks like all of your hard work was definitely worth it. Thank you for sharing!

This skin is wonderful. You've got the facial detals down to a T. (And oddly enough, me and the male have the same eyebrows.)

I always wondered how these sims's faces were so detailed. How did you get the lips and nose to look so realistic?

Just beautiful. I'm also looking for African clothing (contemporary African prints and such, not traditional ethnic costume.) When I find it I'll have the skin all ready!

Awsome thanx! A real dark version would be great ^_^ An keep up the awsome work :P
!@_o!

The realism of the skins has to do mainly with your source pics, and how defined your highlights on the face are. Just lightening up a small area can entirely change the appearance of a skin. It also has to do with your brushes. I made custom brushes for making the pores and wrinkles in my Photoshop CS3 Ex. Makes my skinning life alot easier. I made this skin in less than a day.

Also, if you want to give your male's face the natural appearance of stubble, you can take the lighten/darken tool, set the size down to 1 or 2, and make a series of small dots around the jaw area. Then, go back on top of that and set your lighten/darken tool's size up to 100px, and darken the area in whole.

If you are having issues with your skin having lines in it, this may help you:

Export the original Maxis skin that is closest to your desired skin color. Make sure to edit everything on a new layer. It is much easier to copy and paste floating parts overtop of the other skin textures and edit them than it is to copy and paste the whole pic and edit all of it. And, when you are making your skin, make sure to use the eraser set on a hardness of 0, and erase around the seams of the skin to make sure that all of those areas are the same tone, thus, you will have no lines.

It is also easier to make your texture tones match up with your skins properly by using the color balance and brightness/contrast tools on each separate body part, to ensure you have the best color match possible. The color balance allows you to edit the colors on an RGB level (red, green, blue) so you have a more controlled tweaking of the colors.

I hope these tips helped.

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Thanks to all of you for your comments!

These are stunning - that's all I can say. Absolutely stunning. I love the facial detail especially! Wonderful job done here.

P.S. I noticed your censors right away lol That's a clever and eye catching way to disguise

lol. I used to use little hands making peace and rock on signs.

Ooo, very nice. Big thank you. I would love a darker version as well.

They are beautiful!!!

Eee!! They're really pretty (=
If I ever need a model for anything, I'll be sure to use this skin for them!

Greate, very realistic! And censors are nice But what are they coering? Are there adult non-barbie skins and if not - can u make them?

They are definately non-barbie. I'm pretty much done with making barbie skintones. Unless someone specifically requests one that I think is worthy, then I won't bother making any more barbified skins. I'm slowly working on a new skin as I write this, which it's going to be very impressive once it's finished. This makes my third week on it, so, keep an eye peeled for it here soon.

And thank all of you for the comments.

Perfect! But, damn, it doesn`t download.. Some error: demaged archive, it says..

Just downloaded it and the archive was fine. The skintone worked fine. Try it again.

All right, all is workin`, thanks. Just some troubles with my browser, sorry.

I like the skin tones well done, but the facial expressions I don't care for, many African Americans don't look like that. Good work though.

thank you

Hmm. Its a nice start! But the skin depth and texture looks more indonesian then african to me...

I dont like it... Why did you make african american face have white spots?. you mess up on the lips as well as the nose. TRY AGAIN.

Just what I was looking for. Thanks!

Is this skin genetic?