Can someone help a new guy out?

[Importz2k1]

Hello everyone, I'm new to the site and was wondering if I could get a little help here. I've tried on another site and can't seem to get help there.
I so badly want to learn how to re-skin my loco's and wagons and have tried numerous times unsuccessfully. I've downloaded RW-Tools, Paint.net (free version) and can't seem to get the texture editor path to recognize Paint.net. I've run it as administrator aswell. Is Paint.net not a good program? Is there a different program I can use other than RW-Tools? Would someone please be kind enough to provide me with links if possible?
I have spent weeks reading tutorials but have not been able to find these answers.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I have hit a brick wall.

Thanks,

Jay

[jpetersjr]

For reskinning you will have to use Gimp, another free paint program.

[Importz2k1]

For reskinning you will have to use Gimp, another free paint program.

Ok, I downloaded gimp and I'm still having trouble. The problem lies where I have to choose the texture editor path in RW-Tools.

Mr. Mike told me:
1. Check that you have correctly set up the path to Railworks in the Options menu and that the path does appear in the top border of the main RW_Tools window.
(It does not appear no matter what I try, I highlight the program and hit open and nothing happens.)

2. If using Windows 7, please ensure that you are running RW_Tools as administrator (right click desktop icon and select 'Run as administrator')
( I've done this and it also does nothing.)

I tried to contact Mr. Mike last week but have been unsucessful in reaching him, so if anyone can provide some input it would be greatly appreciated.

[dick8299]

I don't think you are supposed to double click the program, I think you are supposed to navigate to the railworks folder and select it.