I have been using Photoshop since version 2, and I must say that since 4, this is the best Photoshop upgrade I have ever bought. The new painting brushes are nice, although I am also a long-time Painter user and their brushes are still better. The real improvements are in things that save the regular, every day, not-in-it-for-the-wow-factor, working stiff of an artist tons and tons of time. Examples: -The new incorporated file browser, which cancels out my need to keep Thumbs Plus running in the background for complex texturing projects. About TIME! -The stupid, stupid thing they did with Phtoshop 6, where in order to rename a layer you had to right click and choose "Properties" instead of simply double clicking like before has been FIXED and then some! Now all you do is double click the text and overtype. -The Healing brush is HEAVEN...it allows you to clone from any area and not worry about color, since it clones based on luminance and texture. This makes it an invaluable tool, and not like the ordinary clone brush, a sorta neat thing that requires a lot of touch up to be believable. -That imbecilic weirdness they never fixed on Photoshop 6, where the snap to guides was always one pixel off on selections, works perfectly now. -The distort, resize, skew, etc tools work a million times better than before, they somehow allow your image to remain crisper than they used to in earlier versions. -The palette docking well on the upper left RULES, especially for keeping a handy copy of the File Browser and Brush palettes. That's what I really appreciate the most after 4 days in Photoshop 7. I usually wait a few months to uninstall my old version of Photoshop once I have upgraded, but this is the first time its gone after just 2 days. I LOVE this upgrade, again, to me it really is the best yet since Photoshop 4.