Yet another one to chime in. Painter 6 is the perfect companion to Photoshop. I wish I knew more about Corel but Photoshops rubber stamp works very nicely. I have been using it almost all day. What a lot of people dont seem to realize is that you can open another completely different image in Photoshop and with the 2 images open do a direct clone from one to the other. Immensely useful. I havent really had any trouble working with large areas, but generally all my clone work is small and for touchups. As far as a 3d Paint program for painting meshes etc. I have heard nothing but good concerning Deep Paint 3D. I have been told that it is Very "Poser" friendly. However I like to do my maps in UV mapper and then take them to Painter 6. Tartan