I wish I knew photoshop but you can't learn everything. I can use photoshop brushes in corel which comes in handy when doing textures. Finally I have been able to trade my 2 and a quarter slr for a digital slr so now I can photograph my own cloth and textures. Photo paint lets you edit avi, and animated gifs which paint shop pro doesn't. Before learning 3d, I used to combine 200 plus photos to make one photo. 3d makes it a lot simpler once I designed my own characters. I tell you one thing, there should be a program that worked with poser that actually made it easy to create your own character from photographs. And I hate smith Micro. My computer crashed and burned last month and have been trying to put programs back on. Can't seem to update poser now. Anyway that's my problem. If I can help you with paint shop pro, just ask.