Repainting w/ Photoshop 7

[Foxtrot Sport]

Hey,

     I am completely new to the whole repaint thing, and I was wondering if I could begin now.  I am sorta aware of how to edit textures, but then again, that is Halo, and that had a pretty straight-forward program, or HaloMapTools.  Anyways, I have Photoshop 7 and i used that for the textures.  However, I thought that it would be easy enough to just open up the texture files and mess with them using Photoshop, and I am apparently wrong.  I get an error message saying that it could not open.

My point is, is there a tutorial out there for my problem, and if not, is there a program that would at least lead me the way.  Thanx for your help.

-HF

[Foxtrot Sport]

COME ON NO REPLYS i need this info pleez, o and i have been looking at DXTBmp, would that help?

-HF

[Felix/FFDS]

Yes, DXTbmp would help, and just about any tutorial on repainting gives you the basics.  What matter is the process, not the painting tool - (Paint SHop Pro, Photoshop, etc)

In a nutshell,

Convert the original texture format (use DXTbmp or imagetool) to a regular bitmap that your paint program can use....

repaint.

convert your changed texture to the original (or other format supported by FS) format.