Yes Kurt teaches you how to make them. You dont need Photoshop. And PLE works just fine.

You can get a free program like photoshop here:

https://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/

Heres another one,

The Program: ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/gimp/
Photoshop Mod of the program above: https://www.plasticbugs.com/blogimg/g....2.8_setup.exe

Hope this works!