I make ALL my textures for MAX in Photoshop. So do most people. But it would be good to also learn UV unwrapping and mapping. MAX has a good unwrap and map function, asd you can get a plug in callelled Texporter for it as well, which is what I prefer to use. You need to be able to mnake an accurate UVmap to really create good textures in Photoshop.

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