I have no scanner, no printer, no poser. How could I use bryce in photoshop, Besides, Bryce has no models of cute little kitties in baskets which is the image I recommended you go see lol. I'm not saying painter is a piece of shit or anything. Just that I find it very unfriendly. I do have it, the demo at least. But what you can do with any program is only dependent on how hard you're willing to work at it. If I wanted to spend hours and hours doing it, I suspect I could even duplicate 3D brush strokes. If you like painter and can use it effectively, by all means do so. I would never put anyone down for doing good work. I only answered the question that was asked which was if you NEEDED painter to do a painting on the computer. You don't. You can do it in Photoshop, you can do it in PSP, you can do it in Painter, Illustrator, Corel, whatever. It just all depends on how hard you're willing to work and how much time you're willing to spend on it.

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