Yeah, Photoshop is the best. But theres GIMP, very good and similar to PS, totaly free. http://www.gimp.org/ And Artrage, not free, but really good and cheap. http://www.artrage.com/
The free version of the mod tool does that, don't blame the OP, but DietCoke you should really download the free student version from autodesk, https://students.autodesk.com/
http://epicgames.com/community/2012/11/free-art-tool-released-thanks-to-epic-friday/ Epic themselves released a free perspective grid tool, if that helps...
Or would it be: "the struggle against ideological extremists who do not believe in free societies and who happen to use nuisancism as a weapon to try to shake the conscience of the free world."
Orionflame is also pretty cool, and free to boot. Emre is very open to suggestions, has provided me with new free tools very quickly. http://www.flamefx.com/
There is so much free stuff it seems insane to spend money on education for this besides some nickles and dimes here and there. The bias that they'll exploit is "if you spend more money, you'll get better results." This just isn't true. How fast you learn 100% comes down to your own habits. Quite a few red flags. FOMO:…
Substance Painter has a free trial from the Allegorithmic website. The steam beta will give access to the v1 so it isn't free (but it is on sale). http://www.allegorithmic.com/products/substance-painter
We did get a $5,000 grant from the school to compete, but its not really through the school. Its something we're doing in our free time. Hehe free time.
I think Paul Hormis has some free scripts for this. http://www.time-in-motion.com/Hyp-Maxscripts.php Some people really like PolyBoost, not free though. http://www.polyboost.com/