agreed. SO thoes are your choices and there is not a chance someone here will just give you their compy becasue it requires a activation and a cd key to work and this can not happen if that copy has already been used.
If you're editing then photoshop is great. But if are actually drawing you're going to need something to render in great detail. Maya, Lightwave, 3dMax, other like programs make very high quality still images.
well phtoshop is rated number one and i believ the reason you have troubble with it is becasue you are not skilled with it. It takes pratice but it is the best for ant typ of editing or creating. also Cs2 comes with a program called image ready and that is better for creation.