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Cam:
On my tablet pc, I absolutely love to sketch in Alias Sketchbook Pro ( http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=6848332&siteID=123112 ).  You can check out the demo and supposedly, there was/is a lite version.  It exports your drawings to a psd as well.  So, it integrates with photoshop nicely. 

As mentioned above, Art Rage is nice and cheap and pretty awesome from what I hear.  I haven't tried it out myself. ( http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html )

Otherwise, it is the standard photoshop/illustrator love.

Oh, and if you are going to work in illustrator and photoshop, you'll need to install the wacom driver to make them work with pressure sensativity. ( http://www.wacom.com/tabletpc/driver.cfm )

Seriously though, try out the Alias Sketchbook and Art Rage demos first and see what you think from there.  I know Sketchbook is great to sketch in and I hear Art Rage is great.  From there, Photoshop and Illustrator are pretty much the industry standards for every thing else.

Edit: I forgot to mention a couple other programs worth checking out.  Open Canvas ( http://opencanvas.en.softonic.com/ ) and Gimp ( http://www.gimp.org/ ).  Both are free and worth a look.  Open Canvas is like Art Rage/Sketchbook in a lot of ways.  Gimp is more like photoshop. 

3Z3VH:
I still wonder why people say Gimp is like Photoshop.  I never saw the similarity.

There is, however, a group that made a modified version of Gimp called GimpShop that makes it more closely resemble Photoshop.

Cam:
Well, it could be that Gimp and Photoshop are used to do the same kind of work.  Both are designed to do pixel manipulations.  Plus, Gimp was designed to largely be a photoshop alternative.  Gimp isn't like flash or illustrator.  It is like Photoshop, even if the interface is radically different. 

VladDamien:
As for traditional vs digital inking, it's all a question of what feels right to you. I personally prefer traditional inking with a brush only. However, some prefer pens. Then again, some work digitally with their tablets.

You have to try them out for a while to get the feel. I feel that my lines couldn't be as stable on a pc as with ink. And you can always clean up your lines with the tablet afterwards. I prefer to use the tablet for colours, a digital painting canvas, rather than use it as a sketching/inking tool.

Icoop:
I don't have a tablet but what I do use to alter things I scan is Paint.net

Its not great, but its fairly good and best of all its free :-D

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