If you plan to do only hobby texturing by all means PSP will do fine and will cost you less. But if you are in any way shape or form interested in professionnal graphics you will not beat Photoshop, it is the industry standard, a very deep and powerful program. A bit of a learning curve, but if you go with it I recommend the Adobe classroom in a book for Photoshop which will get you up to speed fast enough. Poser is fun...Photoshop is fascinating.

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