Any good skinner who works with Photoshop help me!

GreyArchonThe Magic Wand and Lasso Tool is your friend.

so is the options tab, regular brush, dodge and burn(which i dont use too much)and history brush. and btw what does the 'hand tool' do? doesnt do anything for me

Wormskull... your comments suck so dont post them.

Ok thanks everyone but what tools are for shading? And what skin is good to make for a beginner?

The Burn tool.

Try skinning something easy like Jaina.

I use low opacity blacks and whites to shade and lighten things up also darker shades of that color or lighter shades, all i use is Airbrush anymore.

Small sizes low opacity.

Do something from the orcs they are all easy.

My paintshop pro is messed up.... It wont let me save under 32 bits as .tga anyone know why?

Why would you need to?

because saving in .tga using paintshop, for some unknown reason, is the only way to save the alpha channel with the skin to be able to convert it into a .blp for use in the game. its weird tho, cuz the program states in the help section that alpha channel will only save correctly in .psp format. however, it seems to recognize .tga in the same way and will save the alpha channel correctly as long as the alpha channel is correctly compressed with the skin layer. you gotta merge all (flatten) before you save to do this... i think. at least, it werks for me.

Saving as 24 bit will not be a problem. Also if you save it was a .jpg it will work out. Do however not flatten the image, its simply not necessary, but will ruin you're layering.

The wc3viewer will add the alpha channel to .jpg's. So they dont have to be there when you save you're file from psp.