deep paint itself actually comes with a wonderful set of tutorials, and more can be found at the right hemisphere website. I believe Syyd uses deep paint, you might try her website or runtimedna also. www.3dbuzz.com has one or two, but they arent all that great. You can find all sorts of other tutorials there though that might prove useful. fortunately, the basis of deep paint or really simple to figure out and use, its getting down into all the special features of the program that take some work. Im sure you will have no problem slipping right into it. I dont know of any "active" forums, but you could always try the texturing forums, there are a few of us there who use deep paint and could probably answer a few questions. Righthemisphere has its own forms for all of its software, but they arent really populated ..