I prefer Photoshop because I'm not familiar with paintshop. Is paintshop has a same features like photoshop??

It sort of depends on what you're using them for. I used Paint Shop Pro for years and was fine with it, but once I got into professional web design and development, Photoshop was definitely needed for its power and mainstream role in the industry.

Originally Posted by comofficespace

I prefer Photoshop because I'm not familiar with paintshop. Is paintshop has a same features like photoshop??

cheaper version, not nearly as powerful.

PSP has a lot of excellent options, you can make your own picture tubes and import them, and some nice plug ins- eye candies that can be purchased seperate from the original software. I've used it for years, and am in love with the product.

photoshop is the best among the choices.

Originally Posted by TalkingMonkey

PSP has a lot of excellent options, you can make your own picture tubes and import them, and some nice plug ins- eye candies that can be purchased seperate from the original software. I've used it for years, and am in love with the product.

Same here...

But have to admit Photoshop has a lot more effects, ect. For the price of PSP it's still pretty powerful.....

I used PSP but "upgraded" to photoshop 6 months ago - I would never go back, the graphics are smoother, its easier to design, its more intuitive. You get what you pay for.

Photoshop is way better in my opinion, but then when you compare the price tag, you think, well is it worth it, but I have the whole Adobe CS4 master suite so I already have it, paintshop just doesn't have as many features.

for me photoshop is still the best when creating a graphics, photo editing or even web designs.

To tell you the truth I would say Illustrator is your best bet. It's the vector based adobe program. with pixels (like in photoshop) you loose quality very easy, but with vector it's mathematical so you can resize, change colors and never loose quality. with that program you would use the pen tool with can be somewhat tricky but can be learned by almost anyone with a little practice.
But if you haaaaave to use photoshop I would suggest not really making a stamp but instead making a document with a transparent background.

Photoshop wins it for me, I would never even bother with Paintshop pro.

I prefer the photoshop than paintshop. but of course it depends to the people who will used it. where will he be comfortable using any of them.

i prefer photoshop overall but reallly like paint shop pro's easy to use effects

Oh, i use Photoshop for a long time. And I like it.

i like photoshop and paintshop well i just want say that both of you are make good works!!!

I have a copy of PaintShop Pro 8 that I played around with for a while.

But since I upgraded to Windows Vista PSP8 became unstable.
It would crash when I tried to do some things like crop an image.
Probably later versions of PSP work fine on the newer Windows OS.

In terms of features I think the two are similar but
the clincher (if you can afford it) is that there are WAY more
online articles, youtube tutes and books written about PhotoShop.

Do some comparisons on Amazon and see what you get.

If you are on a tight budget, Paint Shop Pro is a good way to learn
about image editing.

But if you want to work for a professional design firm PhotoShop is
the gold standard so you will need to get your hands on a copy somehow.

Photoshop for me.

Photoshop is better.