>>222566comes down to user preference
are you a poorfaggot?
too incompetent to torrent photoshop?
then gimp is the software for you!!
have lots of daddy's money to spend?
want to use the premiere professional image editing software which every other professional you encounter will be using?
photoshop is for you!
no but in all reality, i use both. photoshop at school/work and gimp on my personal systems, i can do just about the same things on either with the exception of a few features.
it is up to you