skinning in general .. the best tools?

[jollyjack]

Years ago i got a (last opportunity) bought license for Photoshop CS6 64bit for i think around 95 U$D. 

Still works fine, apart for that i am missing some drawing stuff like curved lines.

 

Tried Gimp 2 (and subscribed) a few times, but could not get around it to it after using PS 

Now i want try out Gimp 3, but in general i read advice for other programs like sketchbook to help out for drawing only.

Any opinions and tips??

 

Importing a PS *.PSD file already put me off .. errors regarding fonts etc 

 

 

 

the c47a public template looks like this in Gimp:

 

 

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ADDED: Reading all sorts of info it seems impossible to use gimp for PSD format. 

Seems IL2 forces one to use Photoshop? Like Photoshop Text layers wont be imported ...

 

Edited June 12 by jollyjack

[Sheriff88]

I always use GIMP. Sometimes you open template and it looks distorted but you just have to close certain layers.