Fully agreed with Alpha there, the bottom line is... What do you want to use it for ? I would also go with Slynky "if price is not an issue, get photoshop" definitely. Some other nice features in Photoshop include the text editing capabilities, preset manager, and the actions. And of course there are a mutlitude of resources, tuts, and support on the net for Photoshop, definitely more than for PSP. Granted, most of the stuff done in PS, can probly be done in PSP too, but with greater difficulty, and more effort. In my opinion, PSP7 is about the equivalent of Photoshop 4. But as you know Photoshop is the industry standard... surely there must be a reason for that ? :)