Making Skins For Dummies 101 (using a Developers Kit)

[Khyujo]

Now, I already have a forum topic called "Making Skins For Dummies 101" and I was wondering if it could get "locked" somehow. Thanks. So onto the nitty-gritty, I recently decided that I wanted to make male skins (or is it appliers??) (preferably for the Signature Gianni Mesh Body). so, I grabbed the Signature Gianni Dev Kit awhile back, saved the body textures to my computer and opened them in GIMP (and Photoshop) and kinda just stared at it a bit confused. But, I also have Chip Midnight's Master Template files downloaded (for clothing/skins), and Eloh Eliot's skin templates as well (and a "Fake Bake" Avatar Templates that I bought from the MP awhile back as well). Basically, I was wondering how to navigate skin making using a Developer's Kit and also how I'd stitch the finished product together. Any help would be greatly appreciated!  P.S. decided to use Photoshop (HSV Noise is grayed out in GIMP 2.8.20, even though I have RGB Mode selected).

Edited April 13, 2017 by Khyujo