I wish I knew photoshop but you can't learn everything. 

No, you can't - and I sometimes wonder if you can learn anything, as I seem to keep on finding out something new from PhotoShop every so often. But of course that's what makes life exciting.

I can use photoshop brushes in corel which comes in handy when doing textures.

Really?  That's good to know.  Not that I have Corel. I thought that I at least had Corel Painter Essentials3 but it says the serial number is invalid and emails to Corel just bring me back rubbish nonsensical answers who want me to "redownload the program from the site" when I didn't download it from Corel in the first place, I had a DVD with the program on it as I got it bundled free with my wacom tablet.

Those people just never bother to read the email in the first place!!

Oh well, never mind.

[Oh wait, you mean PaintShopPro! Oh yes, I have put a load of brushes into there, brushes I made in PhotoShop.  I haven't got around to finding out how to actually make brushes in PaintShop yet - could be fun]

Finally I have been able to trade my 2 and a quarter slr for a digital slr so now I can photograph my own cloth and textures. 

Oooohooo!  Nice!  Um, just curious but what's a 2 and a quarter slr?  I know 'slr' is single lens reflex, but what's the 2 and a quarter bit?

Photo paint lets you edit avi, and animated gifs which paint shop pro doesn't.

It does?  Wow!  How on earth does it manage that? I use a video editor for that. (After Effects or Premiere Pro or Ulead Video Studio)

Before learning 3d, I used to combine 200 plus photos to make one photo.

Good grief! 200 plus??? Wow!  I've combined a lot in my time but 200 plus... that's a lot!

How?  In layers?

3d makes it a lot simpler once I designed my own characters.

Oh I'm doing that myself right now - got the first one modeled too:

http://www.franontheedge.com/animation/Diary.html

I tell you one thing, there should be a program that worked with poser that actually made it easy to create your own character from photographs.

From photos?  Eh?  How do you mean?  Do you mean humans?

And I hate smith Micro.

I'm not wild about them myself since they took over one of the forums I regularly used to visit...

My computer crashed and burned last month and have been trying to put programs back on.

Gawd, I hate that!

That would just about finish me if I had another one of those I think, I'm so busy right now working on 3 or 4 projects at once.

If I can help you with paint shop pro, just ask.

I will, thanks.  I think I'm okay just now.... unless...

Is there a way to transform the size of just a single layer in PaintShopPro. Transform and move preferrably? 

I can do it in PhotoShop easily, I just use Ctrl T and the layer's handles pop up: top, bottom, sides and all corners. But I was working in PaintShop the other day and it would have been nice if I could do similar in there instead of having to transfer the image to PhotoShop and start again in there...

Is it possible?

Fran

P.S. I would love to see some of your character designs if possible?  (Just curious)