Unfortunately I use tutorials only extraordinarily. Everything I do is learned by "nature way" just how i feel it.

hi,you can try use "sarmt uv unwrap" command but ,is not perfect for all uses,depend about the surface you want to be texturized for example a car,it may split in four pieces the sides ,but for me the better to have left and right sides ,top and bottom side front and back sides, for simple things or not too much complex model ,is fast ,in most cases you must simply find where is face inside uvmap ,it simple to do having blender and the graphics tool you prefer opened at same time ,swiching eachother to locate a face into uvmap ,then paint a texuture ,(obviously working with layered image ,on bottom of the layer have uvmap exported into the graphic program you use) inside blender alternate with edit mode in 3d view (use face mode display) and uv/image editor with a face selected to locete it inside uvmap