There are things that PI can do with metals that would be weeks to do in other programs, I was excited to see what could be done in PhotoPaint because it makes better metallic effects than I could easily get in Photoshop. Working under a deadline, PP was better. But if I had my choice, with combing what I know of Tone Curve editing, and all the reflection and bump maps that come with PI, it is the better editor, also you don't have to rasterize to get most of the effects and exporting to any program for print isn't a problem, PI prints beautifully.

I just wish it offered some more support for CYMK than just outputting four grayscale files.