Skins work now. I did two skins yesterday without crashing, using the overwrite.
But now hair recolors won't work.
I made sure to merge my layer down (there was only 2 layers, the original, and the new blue color),
I tried both the overwrite, and the export, both crashed.
Is there something new I should be doing here, or should I just try again exactly as I did.
Maybe I made a mistake I didn't notice along the way?

Does that work on doing skintones?
I managed to figure out how to do recolors of clothing, but if I try to do the export when I'm putting tattoos on skins, it crashes.
Will the overwrite work for that?

Okay, I tried that. And it crashed Bodyshop. Is there any way I can just install an older version?

I don't know if anyone here knows much about Gimp, but it's the program I use to edit clothes and skins with Bodyshop.
I just recently got my computer fixed, and I had to install the newest GIMP, which is 2.8
It's very much like the older versions, except I can't figure out how to export my project from Gimp back to Bodyshop.
The older versions used to just make the path for you, all you had to do was click "Save" and the export was done.
But for this version, when you choose to save, a screen comes up asking you where you want to save.
If I choose the pre-determined path, and choose to export, it saves, but when I refresh to see my progress on Bodyshop, nothing changes.

Can someone tell me how to properly export?

I don't have a photo for it. I looked on google, raon, peggy, mts, and I have no idea where it is.

The hair is for women. It's very short on the back and sides, and at the top, the bangs are swooped almost straight (with a little wave at the ends) up into the air, pretty feathered looking. It looks similar to something Rihanna wore. I know it exists and I have seen it all over, but now that I want to download it, it seems to have hidden.

Go to peggyzone. I think that site has something very similar to what you're looking for.

Should I try to uninstall SimPE? Might that help?

I tried Nightlife again, but now the darn thing is back to having AutoRun come up, and not going to anything at all when I click the AutoRun prompt. What the heck?

Okay, I did XP mode for all of the EPs that are already installed.
I can't do it for Nightlife, Freetime, or Apartment Life because they're not installed and when I go to the explorer path, there's no setup.exe

I tried to install them all in order, but I skipped the ones that had problems installing. I have everything installed except Nightlife, Freetime, and Apartment Life. Those ones all seem to have something going on with them.

Also, I haven't set my games to XP mode. How is that done?
(I'm kind of dumb when it comes to this side of computers)

Okay, something is going on with both Freetime and Nightlife.
Nightlife still only goes to 26% and doesn't do anything after that.
Freetime goes to 50% and then a pop-up says there's a problem. I retried a lot of times, but it still isn't operating right.

I will try it through explorer.

UPDATE:
Now Freetime is only going to 37% before it says it has a problem.
It says there's a problem with transfering the file TSData\Res\Sound\Sfx1.package

I have Windows 7.
I have avast for antivirus.

I messed with my computer last night and I got autorun to come back AND work. So I have

Sims 2
Seasons
University
Bon Voyage

installed properly.

For some reason, with Nightlife, while installing it, the installation always gets stuck at 26% and I don't know why that is. I need a little help on this one.

With Open for Business, the autorun came up, but the game didn't play. This was yesterday, though and I haven't tried it since.

As for the other EPs, I'm going to try them out today.

Joy, by explorer, do you mean Internet Explorer, or the computer C: paths mentioned before?

UPDATE:
Open for Business worked this morning, and so did Pets, now I am trying Freetime.

Okay, now my antivirus and firewall are off.
That brought autorun back.
Let's see if the game will install.

UPDATE:
The autorun comes up, but the game never runs even when I click autorun.

I have my firewall off.
But I have avast (free) and have no idea at all how to turn it off.