NSWGR_46Class
Just call my Captain Rude
i use an old program called Paint Shop Pro. it has a lot of the same abilities as photoshop, and i can usually pick one up at the local office supply or best buy for $100 when its time to upgrade. i know i should learn photoshop, but i have always been faster in psp, thats what i get for being cheap (more like just too young to have money) when i started. if it wasnt for this program and a beta copy of lightwave, id never be modeling now.
Paint Shop Pro is in fact one of the best bits of kit to do trainz skins and will give you a better result as it uses TGA as a native format and dose not perform any compression or format conversion to work on TGA's like other platforms do.