I've been looking into that Electric Image EAIS 2.9 program & 3D Toolkit offer ($199.00) and they have some really fantastic & free tutorials on-line if anyone is interested. Most of them cover texturing techniqus, photoshop, etc. These are applicable to most modeling/rendering apps and they are well worth the time to download (QT movies): http://www.dvgarage.com/stl_samples.html