How do you make proffesional looking textures? I've tried many times, but failed. My texture always come out looking really crappy. How do you get the texture to look smooth and awesome? Do you have to have a tablet to do this
Welcome to Toribash young grasshopper, the wise orthopteran knows to nibble on many blades of grass. It is my privelege to direct you to a great guide listing how-to texture guides along with other useful topics. http://forum.toribash.com/showthread.php?t=40716
If that doesn't help, or if you come up with any other questions, feel free to drop me a note.
If you're looking for smooth textures that look great and professionally done, you need to explore paths and vectors. There are several tutorials on youtube, here are some. Video 1 Video 2
This guy has several good tutorials in gimp, and I highly recommend most of them.