I haven't seen anything I can't do with photopaint 7 that can be done with photoshop, but the results seem to be a bit better with photoshop 6 and it should be, I'm ready for a change
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There is a lot of things that you can do with Shop, that can't be done with Paint 7.


You will see big differences between PP7 and PP10 after the comming SP1, and after new professionals tools that will be added soon. PP10 could be updated before V11. It has a new structure which allow this. Shop 6 is not much different than version 5.5 other than some web oriented tools, and it is very expensive. After PP10 be fine tunned. It will be better than Shop6.

I performed the following test. 180 MB Tiff image open and display in the same system.

Photoshop 5.5 = over 2 minutes.

PhotoPaint 10 = 20 seconds.

It is true that PP10 needs tune up, and a couple of tools to be better than Shop. But the time is close, and the investment smaller.

So, I advice you to wait until Spring before you jump. If you have enough budget to get both of them, go ahead.

Regards

Michael Cervantes
MC Design Studio