Personallly I love photoshop, but not the price....

I love the open source ideaology so for me it's the GIMP that gets my money (oh whoops it doesn't because it's free).

One thing that does appear to have been missed out here it photoshop elements, £70 for a cut down version of photoshop, I haven't played with it but I'm sure it must be fairly good....

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Toolset: Blender, GIMP, Indigo Render, LuxRender, TopMod, Knotplot, Ivy Gen, Plant Studio.