Most designers I work with 99% use Photoshop. The best designers I've met, they use Photoshop just for manipulating images, etc. They also use Fireworks (adobe

Most designers I work with 99% use Photoshop. The best designers I've met, they use Photoshop just for manipulating images, etc. They also use Fireworks (adobe is not supporting any longer), etc. I think who designs for web, could and should know how to create prototypes. I don't think Photoshop is the best tool for design. Principles like Master Page and so on, are non-existent in Photoshop... Anyway, I hate to open PSD files, photoshop is slow. I usually pick the full merged JPG and work on that. Cut images from that etc (everything not perfect with errors, etc). Then I share the image folder with the designer and he substitutes the images for me etc - this is usually already coded, so as long as he position the images properly etc overwritting it is fine!