Can someone help me how to texture?

[dale_uk_scout]

Hey guys, can someone point me in the direction of a texture tutorial?
Or give me a brief instruction with a link?

thanks in advance

[editline]07:19PM[/editline]

Yeha thanks guys... i've put up 3 threads to help me now thanks a lot

[editline]07:31PM[/editline]

Please help

[viper720666]

Eh, im a bit of a newbie at this too, but I had some great success for reskinning swep textures using VTF Edit and Gimp. If you're lookin to to edit Valve Texture Files, open it with VTF editor and exract it, then open the extraced file with Gimp, or Photoshop, or Paint (I prefer Gimp), and when you edit it the way you want, just open up VTF editor again, import the edited file which will convert it back, and switch it out with the original file.

[Raffi.]

Use a program like Photoshop or [url=http://www.getpaint.net/]Paint.NET[/url] and create a texture and saving it as a vtf. (You'll need plugins for PS and Paintnet).
Then get [url=http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?p=40]VTFEdit[/url] and create the VMT.
[B]Alternatively:[/B] You can create a normal image file and open that in vtfedit, and create the vtf and vmt in that program.

Then put the VTF and VMT into a folder in <insert game here>/materials - create a folder called "custom" (It can be called anything you want, but I always call it "custom").
Very simple when you get the hang of it.