I honestly pick photoshop, why you say?
its just so professional and paint shop seems like a kiddy version of it.
it has better effects but is quite slow (only downfall)

Photoshop has my vote.

I used to use Paint Shop Pro, but I was annoyed at the poor results it created (especially with transparency). Also PSP wasn't a "professional" tool - to quote a friend of mine who is a graphics artist (it's his job - he studied for it).

So it took him quite some time to presuade me to change programs, and I opened Photoshop 7 - stunned by its speed on a PII 333MHz, where PSP9 took 10 minutes to kick off. Then of course came the dreadful task of learning where everything was, how things were done. About a week later, I banned PSP from my computer and haven't looked back. However for the occasional graphic designer - just hobbyists - PSP suffices. But if you're serious about it and want state-of-the-art, then Photoshop is the way to go.

I found it to be more intuitive than PSP, faster and better results all in all.

I don't feel you can make a correct comparison, since PSP is just not even coming close to touching the tail end of PS.

Photoshop , because it`s offers you a lot of other useful things that paintshop is not .

Photoshop has a lot more features than Paintshop, and it's more professional. Paintshop is just like MS Paint after being modified by a group of people and distributed as a shareware. That's what I think it looks like. There are other free softwares that are better than Paintshop.

Photoshop is now the industrical standard. So, all advance designer use it. PaintShop is pretty easy to learn, so it's for the beginners. PaintShop isn't powerful, if you don't have enough to buy PhotoShop but still want something better than paintshop, you may want to try Gimp, an open source image editing software. It's very popular, right?

I'm using Photoshop 5 for digital artwork. It gives me unlimited control of every detail, and is functional even in it's simpler tasks. Of course, having a graphics tablet helps immensley. I recommend the Wacom tablet. I found it for about $100

I think Photoshop is much better! Especially with plug-ins! CAn`t imagine my life without it!

Has anyone got the new Photoshop? i think its CS2?

Hehe.. Photoshop all the way What a state the poll is in - not a single vote cast for poor PaintShop

I am still using Photoshop 6 on Mac. It does everything I need so why spend the money on the upgrades?

GIMP 2 has gotten a lot better, but still Photoshop is the hands down winner...