Don't get me wrong, when I decided to get into digital painting/drawing in a serious way, I walked my ass over to the local compshop, with $400.00, thinking to pick up BOTH Adobe Photoshop, and Corel Photopaint.
Yeah, I didn't have enough to buy ONE let alone both.
So, I downloaded photoshop. I could never get a downloaded version of Photopaint to work, but I had a valid copy of it at this one job where I did advertisements for the company, and in some ways I preferred it to Photoshop.
Actually, in a LOT of ways I preferred it to Photoshop. But I haven't been able to use the program in a few years now, and I'm so accustomed to Photoshop now...