Ive tryed most of them and once I learnt how to use photoshop I have never used anything eles those custom actions saves heaps of time and there easy to write I have actions for all my everyday stuff like thumbs to image size. Having said that image ready is a cunt I prefer paint shop for making animation.

Hmm.. imageready works fine on this end.. and Illustrator and Freehand used to be a life saver when that was the only way to create vectorised images, more complex ones than simple shapes.

I'd say Photoshop is my strongpoint, at least relative to my own computer skills (basket weaving being a the true first overall), but as I delve more into vector I really start to like fireworks, both have things other don't so using one over the other would be folly...plus I do toons I use adobe streamline to convert lineart to vector, then I doodle with it in fireworks...

http://www.explicit-design.com/pimp_small.gif

He's missing his legs below the knee for a reason.

I use Jasc PaintShop Pro 7. Why? Because I've been using it for many years. Prolly before they had a web site.

Since you can't teach an old dog new tricks ....

i use 3d studio ( from my days working on games ), adobe photoshop, macromedia fireworks & adobe illustrator.

Photoshop 7, Ulead Smart Saver Pro and Ulead Gif Animator, and a bit of Corel are the only ones I use, seems that majority go for Photoshop :) |bananna|