hey guys/gals i have no idea what to do when it comes to getttin/workin skin programmes is there any easy to use ones out there and basically all i really wanna do is change weps colours etc

You mean like my pink Dark Flow and purple Psycho Wand?

You can get hooked up with Photoshop, the .dds extension plugin, and a texture manager and extract the .dds files, modify them in Photoshop, and re-import them to the texture manager. I could have sworn I had it working in GIMP before - the freeware Photoshop (which I actually know how to use better than PS) - you may need to hunt around for plug-ins. Anyways, PS's import interface IS much better than the GIMP one regardless...

Paint.net works fine as well. Whereas, it is more suited to those just starting in skinning.