We obviously all use Photoshop a lot. But is there something any of you use it for all the time, no matter what?? Something special?? Something different that perhaps we are all missing out on?? Do you always use it for making textures? Or editing pics?? Any good tips and/or hints?? By the way, thank you for all the wonderful help and info that everyone here has provided, it makes this program so much MORE enjoyable when we can share stuff like this ;-)

I wouldn't consider this special but I use my PS everyday to make web graphics. I usually earn 100-200 dollars a day doing this part time. I also use it for making textures to be placed on meshes within games , ie ; Interstate'82 , Half-Life , Quake II/III , Myth II , Rainbow Six , etc.

I just use it for making posters for plays and touching up some of my images. Hey Quikp51, you make textures for those games!?! AWESOME!

Adam , yeah most of the textures are decompressed and non-encrypted so you can do as you will. My experience in doing this tells me most textures are in Targa Truevision form , .tga.

Oh, so you are saying you just change the textures on the program? so you don't make the textures that are initially on the program, right? Sorry, that sort of came to me as a huge surpise, thinking that the person I am talking to created all of the textures for the games, initially. That is pretty cool that you can change textures. I will try it sometime. Talk to you later -Adam

I have PhotoShop 5.5 and Painter 6.0 and I ALWAYS go to PhotoShop when I need to make a mask (even if I'm going to do everything else in Painter). Masks in Painter are horrendous compared to PhotoShop. On the other hand, I almost always do textures in Painter as it does a much better job than PhotoShop (remember my picture on the piece of "wood"?). I also go to Painter when I need a pattern because of it's outstanding pattern capture abilities and the weave generator (which PhotShop doesn't even have). -Jim

Thanks for all your marvelous inputs!!! ;-)