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Texture Painting software 3D coat to photoshop problem

People maybe wondering why I post this quesion here but not official forum at 3D coat. Well I did posted there just posting here as well to up the chance to solve my problem :p (please forgive my selfishness) So the story goes:

I've been searching for a software that is good and easy to use on painting diffuse map to models and recently I saw this video tutorial from slipegatecentral - http://vimeo.com/5820395 (this is the video) and I thought this is what I want. So I digged into deep paint 3D and it turns out that it couldn't work with photoshop cs4... maybe work with earlier versions but I am not sure. Slipegate skipped how he import/exported and switch between programs, and there are so few information about DP3D could be found on internet. And next fellows in Polycount introduced me 3D coat and said the software could do the same thing... so here I am.


I downloaded the trail version and tried according to the video tutoril found on youtube - [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg5XI5dGnZY[/ame]. And everything worked the same...as well as the color bleeding problem. I am wondering if there is an option to turn it off? It is quite annoying for it to destroy everything behind the surface. Here are some screenshots I took from test draw :

As you can see below, the colors not only affecting the areas I drew on but also leaking out to the surface behind and beside the drew area.
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also is there a funtion to project wireframe with the layers onto photoshop? It would be much easier to draw. If you noticed some 4+ sided face in this screenshot, they weren't there before importing to 3D coat. Would 3D coat mess up edge loops from original files? Or there are some options to tweak?
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And I would like to dim down the light value simply because it is erasing the shades of geometry and makes me hard to draw. The side been lit up is washed with plain white.(i would need to turned the layer ability to normal and tuned down opacity to about 30% in order to have the lightmap less effective on the drawing layer).
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In addition, is there an option to adjust the image size project on photoshop? The defult size is 1680 x 990 and I would like to draw on a larger canvas such as 2400x200 for example.

Lastly, if there are any video tutorial or text tutorials about how to make 3D coat paint like Deep Paint 3D (I am sorry to make this comparison at this forum but this best illustrates my needs...)
Please tell me becasue I really want to learn to paint good texture.

And not limited to just 3D coat information because ultimatly my goal is to achieve the same effect as slipegatecentral demonstrates. Any software that does it is welcome and please introduce.

Thank you all
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