You are absolutely correct ... Photoshop is very powerful ... HOWEVER ... to tell a beginner that it is "easy to use" is just about as misleading as I have ever heard. Photoshop is the premier professional image editor in the world and as such has a very steep learning curve. There are entire third party industries devoted to this particular product and to a beginner it can be a complete mystery. I use it, love it, and highly recommend it ... but would never tell anyone that is new to it that it is "easy to use"! Cheers ... :-)

the wiz

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Michael (UK):
PhotoshopCS is powerful and easy-to-use, a huge improvement over previous versions. Has nifty things like automatically setting levels and correcting shadow/highlight errors. Excellent program. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>