Coffee Klatch: What's your workflow?

[Merry Calliope]

Hey folks!

Now, I'm just curious and don't expect anyone to give up any "trade secrets" but I'd love to read about the various workflows folks have found effective.

An ulterior motive to starting such a discussion is that I'm finding my current workflow rather clunky - currently I'm using Photoshop (CS2, alas - no 3D tools) and previewing on Aditi which is rather tedious when I'm just making small seam-matching adjustments. I'm experimenting with using Blender to establish a base texture template but so far even that is a little wonky.

I'm going to give AvPainter a try today and see if I find it helpful. I swear I once saw something that allowed one to fiddle with a texture in Photoshop and have almost a "live preview" in another application but I may be confusing this with the Photoshop Extended 3D tools.

Anyway, I love tinkering so it's all good. I hope some folks will share what works for them!