Scene7 provides an image authoring tool as part of their on-demand package. It allows us to create different color variations of a high quality image while preserving the texture and masking anything we don't want to recolor. The results look great, but it's not worth the $4,000 per year in subscription costs.
My questions is: does any other tool offer the same colorization capability?
I know about LiquidPixels' tool, but they're in the same ludicrous pricing range. Ditto Channel Advisor's Rich Image tool (formerly RichFX). These tools pretty much price out the small guy.
There's GIMP, but correct me if I'm wrong: it can't do the same things.