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I agree with you. I have PS7 and CS2 - minus the advantage of plug-ins, I've received the same results or in some cases better from other programs like PSP and ACDSeePro - they're a lot cheaper.

In some cases I've used this freeware (attached link) and had great results.

Quote - Well Tom I  think it is a great programme for the Money no idea about  the latest version of PSP  I still use version 8  but save for the web  with CS2 certainly gives me all the power I need to get the right control and the human eye is still the best judge of quality.  PSP  is less memory hungry that Photoshop CS2 and less processor dependant but if you tweak photoshop you can make it fly along. Having forked out all that money for CS2 seems to me to be pointless... I am still discovering new things it can do since version 4!!  It may be a bit of a monster but  I am sure you can do what ever you like with it...  You can save a lot of time in photoshop by the use of the batch processing and actions