Brushes are nothing and everything

I've seen people do awesome things with default brushes.

But damn is it frustrating trying to emulate a style when you haven't a clue what kind of brushes or textures are being used.

Also, Painter Essentials is by far more welfare than Photoshop Elements. You can't download more paper textures in Painter Essentials. It is also a resource hog. That said, anyone who blames their failings on not having the latest version of Photoshop is a tool.

Inkscape must have the most non-intuitive interface known to man--ironic for a graphics editor. Every time I try and figure it out I just give up and to this day, I've no clue how to even change the canvas size.

On a different note, I knew there was a reason I hated Flash:

"Flash is, frankly, the most obnoxious piece of software ever. fucking. made. Originally, Shockwave was for displaying vector graphics in a web browser. Then someone hacked on animation. Then someone hacked on input and called it Flash. Then someone hacked on bitmap graphics. Then someone hacked on a GOD DAMNED VIDEO PLAYER. Then someone hacked on a fucking half-fucking-assed programming language. And throughout this hackage, someone decided it should be written in x86 assembler, because nobody is ever going to use any other platform. Ever. And then someone hacked it up to run on PPC to make the mac users shut the fuck up.

And then Adobe bought Macromedia, and fired the assembler guys. Because what the fuck, who needs assembler? And then they went to make a new version of Flash, and discovered - FUCK, half of it is written in fucking assembler!

Reportedly, there's a rewrite-from-scratch effort for Flash in the works at Adobe."

edit: Fuck people who say Photoshop CS is bloatware. It's meant for professionals, obviously some random 13 year old who pirates it off Gnutella isn't going to know how to use curves. Hell, I don't even like to play with curves. When was the last time something like GIMP supported CMYK outputs? Oh that's right, never. If anything, it's 90% of those oh-so-commonly used filters that's going to be useless for professionals. I'm looking at you, Lens-flare.