Is Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro better for photography and graphic/web design?
I am a photographer and a beginning graphic designer, and am trying to decide between purchasing Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. I do blog/web design and would also like to try my hand at creating digital scrapbooking kits, vectors, and other graphics too. In addition to that I’d like to be able to edit my photos. Which would you recommend? Thanks 
PS: Cost doesn’t make a difference as I am a student and they would cost within 100$ of each other with the student discount.
The program are so similar in there ability that which is “better” is a matter of personal choice. Have worked with both and prefer Paint Shop Pro myself. (But then, I was using it before Photoshop so it seems to be the one that works “right” and Photoshop works “wrong”.)
Phototshop probably has more support. You will be able to find more tutorials and more add-ons because it is the older program and so has a larger installed user base. Paint Shop was a free shareware for many years until Corel purchased it at version 10. They then “updated” it to make it more like Photoshop.
A third alternative is the free program GIMP. Originally designed as a Photoshop clone for the Linux world, it has recently been ported over to the PC. It can do everything that either photoshop or paint shop pro can do, only it is free. Even if you decide to eventually go with one of the others, I would give GIMP a try. At the worst, you will hate it and then you just uninstall it.
If you are serious about web design, you might want to consider illustrator. Made by Adobe (makers of photoshop) it includes all the graphic features of Photoshop but also includes a lot of extras specifically for doing web page design. It allows you to create both the graphic and the web page in a single application.
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