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You don't, if you mean somethign branded Photoshop from Adobe. There are many image editors you could use, generally cheaper and without having to sign up for a lifetime of rental payments. GIMP is free, though I've nott ried it, Affinity Photo is pretty cheap (though you've just missed the Black Friday/Cyber Monday discounts, I think) and has a pemanent license.
Thank you. I'll do some research. Photoshop seemed to integrate into Daz well (from the tutorial I've been watching). I don't know enought about it yet to properly make a decision.
Photoshop Elements is a good choice. Permanent license, so no subscription. It's got quite a lot of the features of the full version of Photoshop for a fraction of the cost.
It's my preferred image editing software, though I use a couple of different ones on my iPad Pro (Procreate and Affinity Photo).
Lee
Affinity Photo is still 30% off from black friday. €39 is a great price for such a capable software (I really like it, good company, good software).
I also recommend taking a look at Affinity Photo! Especially the 32Bit possibilities are IMHO better than in Photoshop. This is really handy when working with 32Bit canvases.
For basic touchups, you don't need photoshop, GIMP will work great and is free.
Another great alternative to Photoshop is Corel PaintshopPro2020 Ultimate, at a fraction of the cost and a permanent license it can do everything Photoshop can do and can use photoshop brushes and plugins. Upgrades are relatively cheap as well
Another GIMP user here, I've been using it for years. It does everything I need. For basic touch ups it's more than adequate, and is capable of going way beyond the basics. Plus, the price is right, it's hard to beat free when it does everything you need.
I should have added there is no bridge to GIMP like there is to Photoshop. If that is something you really need that might make a difference. But I haven't felt the need to have it. Of course I might feel differently if I got used to using the bridge and then didn't have it with GIMP.
I will also vote for GIMP. I used it for years, then stopped because newer versions were becoming really slow on my aging computer. My wife has an Adobe subscription right now, so I of course started using Photoshop since it was available. But since upgrading my computer, I have gone back to GIMP for some things, some operations just seem much simpler and intuitive on GIMP.
GIMP is pretty good. There are a few things that it can't do that Photoshop can, and a few minor things that I feel are counter intuitive... but it's free! And it can do the basics.
why would you need a bridge to import a 2d image to photoshop ... seems a tad lazy
I have photoshop, and whenever i needed to do postwork or edit a texture i just did it the manual way, since it's like what - two steps max? is there some benefit to using a bridge for this that eludes me?
I know it has been mostly asked & answered but if you want to use Photoshop then I can definitely recommend Photoshop Elements, maybe even the whole 'Elements suite' which also includes Premiere (= movie editor application which can also be used to create photo collages). What I personally enjoy most about the Photoshop Elements is that it also includes 'Organizer' which is a program that can help you organize all your media files. From pictures to movies and audio files, yet without having to physically mess with the files themselves.
I've been using Gimp for a long time myself but eventually decided to change after I had to do a clean reinstallation and discovered that many of my favorite settings were suddenly "gone". Not necessarily gone but they were only there to remain backwards compatible; applying them to a new installation apparently required manually messing with the config files and/or registry. You'd never notice with an upgrade, but after a clean installation I was suddenly lost. So far I'm enjoying PSE a lot better, also because of the specific Photoshop features like image correcting or the magnetic lasso'ing.
As usual the saying "you get what you pay for" still holds true today.
GIMP is a free Photoshop alternative, but.... you seem to want something to do quick bits of postwork adjustments rather than a behemoth that will take five years to learn. In which case you want the free Paint.NET and a dozen or so choice plugins (also free) such as G'MIC, Advanced Recoloring, and Liquify.
why would you need 5 years to learn how to edit textures etc in gimp and photoshop. it would take like half a day max.