Hello all. I'm kind of new to the boards here by virtue of just joining today. But discovered this site a few weeks ago.

I get a lot of enjoyment edited photos and have thought to advance my skill levels into areas of graphics. I've used several photo editors to do lots of interesting things, yet the layering of graphics really looks to be pretty cool

Adobe Photoshop seems to be a pretty hefty price for my new beginnings into graphics, but while looking at other software programs I found that PhotoImpact seems to have many of the same kinds of functionality that I saw in Photoshop. But, now I'm confused about the differences I found regarding what appears to be 2 different programs called PhotoImpact.

One program appears to be a version 8.0 that is made by a company called Ulead.

The other is a program called PhotoImpact 8.5 Pro by a company called Nova.

They both to be similarily priced and seem to share a lot of the same kinds of features. Would any one with a few minutes to spare like to tell me which would be better of if they know if there is any kind of relationship between the two programs?

Thanks in advance,
Dejay11

Nova

ULead