I have done a couple of textures for a helicopter. i have found that, with poser you dont have to reload the texture each time.

I work in PSP so that i can use layers then save out (I belive photoshop has a "save for the web") as a jpg (overwriting the texture file loaded in poser each time) and when i want to test it I just pop over (alt tab) to poser and tell it to reneder (ctrl r). It rereads the texture file each time and updates itself (at least it does in P5, i dont know about anything else).

no need to open the texture over and over.

you'll still end up with both running at the same time, but it wont cost you anything (financialy)

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