Hold on, now. Paint Shop Pro is a wonderful program, but I wouldn't use it over Photoshop any day. Photoshop is a much more professional-grade photograph editing (hence the name) software than is PSP. Just because Photoshop has a higher learning curve doesn't make it inferior.

Anyway, thus ends my anti- anti-Photoshop rant.

Charge, if you are familiar with Photoshop, I would definitely reccomend using it, as it provides far better editing capabilities if you know how to use them (yes, including palette editing). On the other hand, Paint Shop Pro will be much easier to get the hang of if you're not familiar with either.

The most important thing is: a legal (i.e. registered) user is a happy user.