How do you get new designs for the cars. Rather than just black/green/blue ?

By designing them in your favourite image editing porgram. In your skins directory, there are files which have the word default in the file name. Edit these to your desire, then save them under a different filename, follwoing the convention of the other files present in the skin directory.

As your licensed, others skins are automatically downloaded to your skins_x subfolder in <lfs>/data/

You might want to use these ones : just move them to your skin folder and they are ready for your one use, assuming the author has nothing against some one else using his skin... If in doubt, ask him as the skin may contain restricted use symbols (CRC logo for example, which you are not allowed to use unless you are member)

By the way, look around from lfs links and you may find some useful tutorial on how to paint your car (see old forum on RSC too). I know there is one on www.lfsfrance.com ,but as you may imagine, everything is written in French over there.

Have a great time painting your car

Bruce

I've also written a reply to another question about skins recently - which demonstrates how to make your own colour sets, and so forth. You may find it useful: http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=312