I'm currently working on my very first body tex for V3 and am using Snowsultan's excellent seam guides. I use PSP9 to carry out the process, but it struggles sometimes with the sheer size of the seam guide - can I reduce the seam guide size, do the necessary, then resize it to full size afterwards, or will that degrade the quality? I'm not after photo-quality or that sort of thing, but would like to make my first tex as nice as possible. thanx in advance

If you reduce the size of the texture down, then it would be pointless to make it larger again after you are done. Your resolution quality will only be as good as it was when it was small....so you may as well keep it small and keep it easier to load.

thanks for that - I did wonder - I tried at the original size and once a few layers were added, PSP really started to labour, making a tricky job so much worse - off I go ;-)

I had the same problem with my old computer, so after I finally sold enough textures to get a new computer, it made life alot easier. But now with the added power I tend to push it to its limits again, as most of my original photoshop files now run up to 200+mb in size due to all the layers and extra detail I want to add...all at high res sizes.

Making the seam guide less colours might help.