Hi there j5ive.

I know a really good website for highres free textures, you can find it here:

https://www.mayang.com/textures/

I've used it loads, and because a lot of the textures are so large, its easy to find at least a part of a texture that will do the job for you. Its also good to grab a digital camera, and go out and take photos of textures yourself (if you have a camera, that is), then you can get exactly what you want.

There are some good texturing tutorials on this site (I would def recommend that you have a look at the render globals tutorial for if you are interested in rendering), but if you feel that they may still be a bit advanced for you, you could try looking at the texturing section at www.learning-maya.com.

Photoshop is a piece of software that you use for image/photo editing and manipulating. When using it with Maya, it is used mainly for creating texture maps, but also for post processing renders. If you are serious about texturing, its probably a must-have piece of software.

How much do you know about texturing?? I'll gladly help you out as much as I can. I'm no expert, but I do know the basics.

LisaG