cool, very nice textures and interesting workflow. are you going to record a video for creating spec maps?
that coral photo paint looks similar to the old paint shop pro versions i used to work with, but sadly no longer have access to the install disks.
the last image editor i used for textures was the free paint.net, which had some cool filters but very limited brush tools, so as i'm going to working with bitmaps again in the very near future, i think i might give gimp one last try, and if i still dislike the interface, then i'll probably buy the latest paint shop pro.