I resent this. Color composition, blending different elements together, compensating for a low-res source image... There's more to it than what you describe, even if you're starting with something off of cgtextures or whatever. Not everyone can be a Westly or Alienslof, but I'm still really proud of the texture packs I've released.
Wow speedracer, slow your roll. I think he just meant it was alot harder to hand paint the textures as Westly and Alienslof do, which requires talent, compared to actually making textures from source images, which can be taught. I don't think he intended to make it come off like it was easy.
More or less what Slaanesh said. I'm referring to minor changes that most people do (such as myself because of my lack of skill).
Handpainting aside, there's a huge difference between what some people do with resource textures as well, while you can probably easily find any source of a texture in my mod, the same texture could be totally unrecognizable in another modder's mod. So take it easy, I'm not downgrading that aspect of modding, just saying that what the likes of me do is not exactly texturing.
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What I think he was trying to say is that he does not consider what HE would do with textures to qualify as real retexturing, as he is limited by his admittedly lackluster skills.