the healing brush is overrated, it doesnt work as well as i had expected it to... the natural media brushes are nice if you dont have painter or another program like it. theyre not quite up to painter's standards, but theyre a nice addition. the new interface is nice and sharp, but its clunky for someone used to ps 6 or earlier. i spent so much time looking for things that i am used to be in a certain place its not funny (such as the brush dynamics like fade, taper, etc). they did stupid things like rename Adjust to 'Adjustments'... i really dont know what purpose this serves other than to slow me down, when im used to clickin on 'adjust' for the last 4 years and they change it to 'adjustments' it slows me down for the time it takes to do a double take. i know it sounds silly, but theyve done so many stupid small changes like that that the entire program seems alien to me. my best recommendation would be to wait until one of your friends or the office gets a copy of it, then sit down and play with it for an hour. cheers, -gabriel