I have been learning more and more as I begin to work with 3D, that a quality texture editor is a must. Paint becomes incredibly time consuming to do any form of shading and highlighting for even simple objects.
Looking around I see PaintShop Pro seems to be a favorite, however, this is an incredibly expensive program (I was told 700$Can) and I simply can't afford it. I would like to know if there is a cheaper program that can make textures?
I don't need to have the best quality, heck, I've been using paint up until this point. I really just need something that can blend, highlight, shade and can alter alpha values (.png?). While I could make my own, I'd rather not spend three months making a program if I could buy it for under 80$...
I need to make textures for character models not just world levels so I don't need one that can, lets say, make cloud textures for a skysphere but can't do simple blending and such.
Is this possible? Up until now all I hear is PaintShopPro this and PaintShopPro that... I know some of you may have deep pockets but I do not. If possible I'd like to just get 1 program not 3 or 4 for slightly different tasks.
Thanks in advance.
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