well, I love ps, for airbrush looks, but if I want to paint with a brush, it is Painter for me. Pastels, Charcoal, Watercolors (with bleed and shore marks), oil paint, markers, impasto oils, are incredible. Also, the lighting of the 3d brushstrokes, so the peaks get a little highlight, and the valleys get a touch of shaddow, I just cannot get ps to do that sort of thing.