I ended up picking up C4D (BodyPaint) just before the holidays. (Yeah... ouch. So much ouch.) It was surprisingly well-behaved when it comes to V4's many-seamed nightmare templates. There are a few of them that are still a royal pain, but I'm slowly getting the hang of it. You can essentially tell it to paint right across the seams as though they aren't there, which is intensely helpful -- especially since it has a clone stamp tool. I end up laying out what I generally want in photoshop, importing it over to C4D, fussing with seams with the clone stamp, then going back into photoshop for another round of cleanup and blending, and so on until I'm happy with it. It's time consuming, but fussing with it in photoshop alone and trying to match things up was taking me much longer. I had one too many stressful head-bangy moments, too. You can get a competitive upgrade from Bryce if you have it, which knocks $100 off the price, and that is very helpful. I got the most basic package they offered, and it was around $800 after the upgrade discount, plus shipping. I ended up picking it up since I was running into seam issues on the freebie I'd promised to do for Xmas, and there was just no time to do it any other way. As painful as it was to part with that much cash -- and it was nail-bitingly painful, I actually lost sleep -- it was very much worth it. I was able to do some spot fixes on my recently finished gal with it in a fraction of the time it would have taken otherwise, and was able to get most of a skin done that is purely photo-based since. (Still fussing over the limbs... sigh.)

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It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye texture.