Image processing

I played today for an hour with the Paint Shop Pro trial
Do I have reasons to order Paint Shop Pro while at the same time I can have in my system Gimp fro free?
Are there any futures of Paint Shop Pro that are unique?

Thanks

Um... PSP is far and away better than Gimp.

However, if you're happy using Gimp, why bother paying for PSP? You said you've been using the free trial of PSP, so if you think its worth the cost, buy it. If not, don't.

*shrugs*

Thanks Gfk although I think an hour is not enough to explore PSP that's why I posted. At first glance its capabilities are not better than Gimp.
So far I think it is more user friendly...

Yeah I would say PSP is generally laid out a lot better and has more features, but GIMP is fairly good. I would use both if needed.

The GIMP, PaintShop Pro, Photoshop Elements and Photoline 32 are all nice tools for many or maybe even most purposes. However, when it comes to RAW photography, there are no alternatives to the Aperture and Photoshop CS3 Extended combo.

But reducing it to The GIMP and Paintshop Pro -- Am I the only one who finds The GIMP's UI horrible? I'd go for PSP over The GIMP anytime.

Or Adobe Lightroom, Photomatix, Rawshooter Essentials...

If your gonna throw cash at something, check out Pixel as well.

Havent tried it myself, but it seems capable and most important: cheap ;)

I was also quite impressed by Paint.NET ( http://www.getpaint.net ), it's an Open Source, free graphics editor. It's better in many things than PSP.

Paint.net is nice, but definitely a lot more bare bones than either PSP or GIMP

The GIMP's UI is quite unfortunate. Considering that it is the program whose name is forever sealed in GTK (GIMP ToolKit), it is a bit of a shame to see it looking dated while the toolkit grows without it. It is by no means a good showcase of the toolkit's abilities. It looks ugly, it ignores some of GTK's advanced features that it really should be using to improve its usability, and its mystery meat interface is impossible to navigate. (GTK is about accessibility, and somehow this program manages to dodge that principle).
I suppose one reason it bothers me is its icon set. Considering most Gnome desktops have moved on to Tango, it just looks dated. (If only we had Pencil and Rectangle stock widgets). I can't fault the program for that one, of course, since that's my distro's job!

The good news is that its problems are all interface; the program itself is pretty capable, especially combined with Scribus for printing with colour management. Maybe some day a kind soul will come along and bump that thing into the future :)

I'm not sure what kind of image work you are doing, but for lots of stuff, Inkscape (vector graphics editor) can be quite pleasing and yields excellent, scalable results after a bit of learning.

There's also a Gimp hack called GimpShop which makes it a bit more like photoshop...

I tried that a few months ago, and it crashes every five minutes.