TRAVISB,Just finshed posting a question for a friend and saw your post pop up,so your going to get my 2cents. Use both for what they do best.I do,many people do.Your right on the money in seeing what both programs are good at, and not so good at.Painter is all about the brushes,brushes,and brushes...it sucks at pretty much everything else.Use Photoshop for what it's good at..everything else(unless your into Vector graphics,but we won't go there today). OK maybe that was 5 cents worth...SWAMP