User friendly and Photoshop are terms I've never heard usd in the same sentence. It's a professional application that's difficult to learn well and even after years of use you probably still won't be using it to full potential. It's by far the deepest program I've ever encountered, and I've been using it since V3 or so. I have 6. I can't afford 7. The brush options for 7 are a good selling point, and there's been a huge increase in graphics tablet interfacing. I don't use a tablet because the tablet I have is just too slow. I have my mouse speed set at the highest level, and being used to that, the slow movement of the pointer with a tablet just irritates the hell out of me and slows the whole process down. Maybe wacom tablets are different, but I can't afford that. If I could afford one of the new Wacom video tablets, I would definitely want V7. Being able to draw directly on the screen would probably make up for the slow pointer movement. And the Wacom and Photoshop brushes have been specifically designed for each other.

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