Include a link to download the package file which causes the bug if you can. Make sure you include details like the item you were recolouring from and the settings you were using. If you experience any bugs with your packages, it’s always worth dropping the creators of the tool a line in their forum. Some items might cause your game to crash, or make strange things happen, and for the time being, that’s the way it is. They are still learning about the structure of The Sims 4’s files, and the structure of the files that we need to make. It should go without saying but I just want to make this really clear: modding for The Sims 4 is at a very early stage! The programmers who are spending their spare time working on the Color Magic tool and s4pe are not magical beings.

Color Magic – this tutorial uses version 0.8.0, and the latest version is always available for download here.

S4PE – I highly recommend that you extract this using 7-zip, as several people have reported that they are unable to export DDS if they unpacked it with WinRAR (myself included!).

Although I have tried to explain the Photoshop parts in reasonable detail, I haven’t gone into every tiny detail, so if you have never used Photoshop before, you may need to ask for Google’s help on some parts (or ask in the comments below).

A basic knowledge of your chosen photo editing software.

Alternatively, you can use Gimp and its DDS plugin, but this tutorial won’t cover how to use that software.

Photoshop (I’m using CS5) and the DDS texture tools.

A copy of The Sims 4 or The Sims 4 Create-A-Sim demo in your Origin account.

Edit sims 4 package files