Painter have always been my main working horse for years and it always had some shortages that you have to compensate with a help of Xara or Photoshop. I stopped to buy upgrades after 9,5 version because they didn't do anything with that and introduced things I am absolutely not interested with. Don't see anything really valuable except 64 bit support in this version either and they want me to pay full price now. Looks like it's time to move from Painter to something else and wait when they decide to make a kind of Photoshop plugin from their brush engine. Too bad Microsoft have castrated Expression. What a great piece of software it could be if it would merge with Painter into some kind of hybrid .