what do I need to edit textures ?

[Pildream]

Can someone help guiding me to editing textures , like pavement ? I 've seen some really good work done by the community and want to try too

[Kandarim]

This should probably go in Artifice & Arcana.

You should use http://forum.salemthegame.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=5417 (boshaw's layer util from HnH, also available for salem) to unpack .res or .cached files (if you're using a custom client, these are in ~/.salem or in ~/Salem/bin/salem-res.jar). Change the image content, and repack at your leisure.

If you want to overwrite existing resources (from ~/.salem or ~/Salem/bin) when using a custom client, you should place them in the correct tree under ~/Salem/custom_res. So for example ~/Salem/custom_res/gfx/terobjs/... I don't think it's currently possible for vanilla.