Need help creating Hair styles/ Textures and Clothing in Sims 2 Body Shop!!!?

Hi, I already know how to use Body SHop, what I don't know how to do is working with the alpha files and actually creating the hairstyles and clothing. I only have windows Paint program. I do not want to install any other mesh tools or any Photoshop or anything else. Does anyone know how to understand alpha files, and Create Hairstyles/ Textures and Clothing on Sims 2 using Windows PAINT Program??? If so, please help, I already know what I want to create, but i don't know how to get started.Need help creating Hair styles/ Textures and Clothing in Sims 2 Body Shop!!!?
There aren't a lot of tutorials to use with Microsoft paint out there, but I'm giving you links to three different things to help you out a bit. Microsoft Paint isn't really a graphics editing program, but rather more of a program that plays with pixels.





The first link is an actual Sims 2 Body shop tutorial from Prima (it's in pdf format, so you'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read it). It covers the basics and also explains about the alpha channels.





The second is a tutorial on making clothes, but it also explains alphas.





The third link is a tutorial on making clothes, but using Microsoft paint.





Now I know you don't want to use Photoshop (I use Paint Shop Pro) or anything, but there is also Gimp, which is a free program that is much like Photoshop. (the second link has a link for Gimp). If you want to make something decent, I suggest using Gimp.





I've also provided a link for playing with the alpha files using Gimp.





Good luck! I would love to see what you create!