Creating my First Skin

[ZippityDooDa]

This goes for all but mainly EvilGrins, I am starting my own skin but how do I go about cutting and pasting from digital photos and applying that tothe uv layout of the texture?? for example since digital photos are not laid out flat like a UV texture is from the skins ,ie the face is rolled out how can I take a digitial photograph and flatten it out and shape it to the default texture mappings?

[EvilGrins]

I largely edit from existing skins. I've no clue how to edit photos into textures.

Sorry.