Me i am using Bryce 5, Ray Dream Studio 5, Painter 3D and CorelDraw! Graphics suite 10. I use RDS for doing object for Bryce when i think in simpler to do it. Painter 3D is for doing some textures map on object, like doing a planet. But directly on the object . A Small but good program. Corel Photo-Paint 10 i use it for doing textures, elevation map for the terrain editor. Why then for you??? RDS is now Carrara Studio from Eovia at www.eovia.com. You can ask question for this one in the Carrara & Ray Dream Studio forum for better anwser. You can then have the choice of Photoshop or CorelDraw Graphics suite. The choice is personnel, i prefer the Corel interface and i have been working with it a lot of years. Photoshop is very good too. Anyway, that's it for me. Pleiades