I've been wondering about Deep Paint 3D and ZBrush myself. Like Laurie, I've been using UVMapper Pro and Photoshop together, but sometimes I wish I could just paint directly on an object without having to go back and forth between two programs, checking if the seams line up, redoing them if they don't, etc. If you're a student or a faculty member, you could get Deep Paint 3D for about $150 at www.journeyed.com, but of course you can't use it in commercial projects then. As for trueSpace, I think I can guess what your opinion is... ;) I love the program, but you can't really paint textures with its 3D Paint tool. It probably depends on the graphics card and the capabilities of one's computer, but mine gets really slow if I try to paint on a denser mesh. I think the tS 3D paint tool is only good for adding little details here and there.