Again, what's your usage. PS is good, to be sure, but I could not use it as I would Painter6 [I know for I tried]. PS is far behind what Painter can do. On loading for quick easy studies of layers [while reamining reliable] PSP is fine. I do not find PS to be a 'major' player in my work environment... but then again that's mine. I would rather have Painter and PSP for the work I do on a whole. And on a whole I could not do what I do without AE or Premiere. I output my anims [2 b] as image sequences so this works from Bryce to Poser to any 3d package I use, but it takes AE or Premiere. I can also cram in any PS PSP Illustrator or such image file into it as well. If I had only one app I'd be dead... :)