Their new paint engine is the major feature but although it does allow for natural media (as other programs have for a while) but it still does not allow for different painting media as in Corel Photo-Paint, Painter, Deep Paint, etc. The ability to draw/paint using charcoal, pastel, chalk, crayon, watercolor etc. Don't get me wrong. I do like Adobe Photoshop and a host of other 2d and 3d graphics software. I can't survive a day without graphics. I was just not impressed with the amount of features being added after jumping from one whole number v6 to v7. Usually there are small changes going to the .5 version and big changes going to next whole version number.