Learning to make new textures with Photoshop/Gimp, Where to start?

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I'd like to try making an armor for Oblvion/Skyrim and know the basics of using Blender/CS/CK, and have Gimp and Adobe Photoshop CS 5 Extended but can't proceed because I don't know about texturing from scratch(1024*1024 or 2048*2048, full set). I have some ideas but don't know enought about texturing.

 

[spoiler= Mod Ideas ] Recreate battles from Tactics Ogre you could get Mirdyn, and Gildas as companions.

Loki and Evil heroes travel around Skyrim, and have a chance of ambushing the player when they fast travel, or you might find them attacking a town(script to make them only hostile to npcs when player is nearby or in the same cell).

[spoiler= Avengers movie and Skyrim Guild spoilers ]

What if Loki mind controlled or resurrected Guild leaders like Savos Aren, Kodlak Whitemane, Mercer Frey, etc.

 

 

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Start right here: http://www.loverslab.com/Forum-Tutorials-Guides--33

Many threads have links to other tutorials elsewhere as well.

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Unfortunately, didn't find anything about making a new texture for an armorfrom the ground up, hoping to be able to make high resolution armors