It's all personal preference Tom... I've seen some great painters that use PSP... like IB4JR for one... It's all in how you use the software really.
Personally for me, I have Photoshop CS3 because of my day job doing websites, but I painted with PSP 8 forever.
Thanks for the info, I might upgrade to PSP 9 and try that for a while.... But now I know what version of Photoshop to be on the look out for...
Thanks again..
Tom