I originally posted this February 25, 2011. Here is my contribution to Strawberry's meme this week.
http://web.archive.org/web/20111106134413/http://slook.biz/2011/02/25/tutorial-how-to-tint-sculpt-feet/

I started blogging in early 2011 on my own domain slook.biz. Through a serious of misfortunate events, I messed up and my hosting company, godaddy.com, did not get their money so they sold my domain to someone else and I lost a years worth of blog posts. I was disheartened to say the least. It took me months to start again on kirstentacular.

I really thought I had lost all those old blog posts but last night my  fiance Jay taught me something. It seemed so simple to him, but it was really priceless to me and it made me cry (the good kind of tears). Since I am sure I am not the only one that has ever lost a webpage or url, I thought I would share.

Jay's Simple way to see old, lost websites:
1) Go to http://archive.org/
2) In the middle of the page is a place that says "web" on the left and in red and black funky letters is called the "WayBackMachine." There is a search box and a button under it that says "take me back."

• Step 1. Set windlight settings to how you use them in game
• Step 2. Jump on a pose stand
• Step 3. Try out the skin pre-sets, you might get lucky…..although I never have. Below is number 8 and number 9 in the N-Core shoe HUD. You can see the HUGE difference in color and that it is nowhere near my skin tone.
• Step 4. Turn on your RGB colors under your cursor. You get the advanced menu by control + alt + D. You get the Develop menu by control + alt + Q. In the Second Life Viewer 3 you go to Develop --> Show Info --> Show Color Under Cursor. 
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• Step 5. Use Control + Zero to zoom in on the skin right above your foot. Move your cursor around your skin and you will see a range of numbers on the bottom of your screen as you move your cursor.
•  My skin went from about 140-160 red, 85-105 green, and 65-85 blue. For prim feet matching, I have found that you want to pick numbers not right in the middle of the range, but closer to the middle, high end of the range. I also tend to pick the numbers I see most often as I move my cursor around.  I went with 158 R, 102 G, 85B.
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• Step 6. Change your sculpt foot to white.Most shoes actually have a white tone (for gothic skins, etc). Do NOT use one of the brown skin tone pre-sets in the shoe because they won’t work with this method. You end up combining the skin pre-set AND the RGB numbers and then your foot is way too dark. So use a white sculpt foot. (To reset your zoom use Control +9).
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• Step 7. Enter the RGB numbers into your shoe. Every sculpt foot shoe that I have tried has this capability somewhere. You might have to search around in the different shoe HUDS or enter it in on a channel. Usually I then tweak my numbers a little but using the RGB numbers from my skin gives me a great place to start. 
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• Step 8: Tweaking Tips: You want a color that is a little bit lighter than your skin because as you take away red, green, and blue it will darken your tone. The colors all start with 255 red, green, and blue until you tweak them. As you lower those numbers, your foot will get darker. 
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•  I ended up using 155R, 96G, 72B. This was very close to the mid-upper range of my skin RGB colors and close to the numbers that I picked to start with. Now my foot is perfectly matched to my leg! I am wearing Lara Hurley Claire Tan skin in this tutorial. Also, with just a few minor tweaks in numbers this is the basic RGB for Adam n’ Eve Tan skins, Belleza Tan skins, League Suntan skins, Tuli Emma Tan, and Apple May Designs Tan skins. (It is interesting to me looking back how much my skins have changed in two years!) All the skins I wear are very close in color and I do not have to hardly change my sculpt feet at all.
Happy tinting!

Love, Kirsten Corleone