online art editor

[bearded]

http://www.splashup.com/
you can load jpg and save as jpg, so you can load wireframes and you can save it to change to tga later. full editor, with layers. neat.
and here are some jpg's of male basic, the male basic wire as well.  the male basic is gryphon's base, to work from.
http://www.fxforce.com/GRYPHON/tutorial1.html

[Podmark]

I've seen a couple of these online art programs. They really impress me. I've toyed with attempting a skin on them, just to see how it worked out. You'd just need to convert to a tga or dds.
These are the other ones I've found:
pixlr
Sumo paint

[hoss20]

   The only drawback I see, especially for those new to skinning or graphics in general, is understanding that every time you save a jpeg, there is a reduction in quality. So, unless you knock out a skin in one shot (which I don't think anyone does), you'll just have to deal with the fact that your skin will never be as sharp as you want it.
   That being said, this is a cool application for those without the resources or good fortune to obtain a program like Photoshop. Just from a cursory look, it appears that the interface resembles a simplified Photoshop. This is a definite boon to those just getting their feet wet with skinning. Also, this being a new application and the fact that the creators are taking suggestions, I would imagine that the capabilities will be increased over time.

[Podmark]

   The only drawback I see, especially for those new to skinning or graphics in general, is understanding that every time you save a jpeg, there is a reduction in quality. So, unless you knock out a skin in one shot (which I don't think anyone does), you'll just have to deal with the fact that your skin will never be as sharp as you want it.

The pixlr one allows you to save in their format for the raw file, so you don't need to save as a jpeg each time. I don't know if the other two do.
They definitely aren't prefect for skinning, but they're still pretty cool.

[Cyber Burn]

Kind of off-topic/kind of on-topic, but I use Paint.Net, and have experimented with GIMP (Before my last crash anyway).

Aside from the Paint Shop Sro's and Photoshop's, what other programs are commonly (or uncommonly) used for skinning?

[ow_tiobe_sb]

Uncommonly =>

ow_tiobe_sb
Phantom Bunburyist and Whirled Braker

[Cyber Burn]

This is very cool, thanks ow_tiobe. The Adobe will never happen for me, but I would like to try the Tattoo program. I've just been a bit curious about what other programs are out there.