I too have had the chance recently to play with 6 and don't find it all that improved except the magic wand. For photo restoration work you would be better off putting money into better scanning software or other editing tools. As per the text editor, this was an improvement but not muc use to me, and I found that I could do most of the new tricks with current actions. I probably will get this, only because I get the educational version as an instructor. I did find it took a while to load under win 98 and 2000, but did reasonably better under NT 4.0, however it's best load was on my 5 year old Digital Alpha 500 with a gig of RAM