What do you like about photoshop? long ago I was using this free image graphic creation, that I download from the web.. (this is good for web newbies) but then I got photosop and saw the difference. At first it was hard to learn all the tools. Since the newbie program was only couple of options, photoshop had tons of options.

yeah i also started on one of those programs but i slowly made my way up. now i use cs.

Thats good, the CS should be fine. CS2 and others I would just wait for the next update.

CS too wasnt that big a deal for me infact i dont see that much a difference and dont see any point in spending the lump of money on it. I'd just stick with the version before it and wait for a newer version to come out. I love AP but the CS was a let down for me v.v