> At the core of Photoshop is a consistent, powerful, tightly-coded, thoughtfully-designed set of tools for creating and manipulating images. Once you learn the

> At the core of Photoshop is a consistent, powerful, tightly-coded, thoughtfully-designed set of tools for creating and manipulating images. Once you learn the conventions,[...] Photoshop has a terrible set of conventions. I'd take Macromedia Fireworks any day of the week instead. But Adobe bought Macromedia and gradually killed Fireworks in 8 years due to "overlap in functionality" between it and 3 other Adobe products. That action pretty much enabled enshi*tification of Photoshop which wrapped the terrible core of Photoshop with terrible layers of web and ads.