Is Photoshop an absolute requirment?

Moonlight_Fox

After a quick look around, all the tutorials I could find work with the presumption that the user has Photoshop.
Is it possible to use this software without it? Would Illustrator/Inkscape do the job?

CBeam

If you can make .psd files, you're good to go.

I make them with Paint tool SAI and it's alright.

Ran_TH

It's not mandatory really, you can arrange your model body parts in Illustrator and save them to PNG format, and then you import it as a texture in Cubism Editor and manually place them.

PSD format has benefit of PSD import feature in Cubism Editor, which you don't have to manually place body parts.

jezebelthenun

I save my Sketchbook Pro drawings as PSD, but they won't load in modeler. Only actual Photoshop saves seem to open.