Photoshop may very well be the industry standard tool but I think it fails miserably at doing several simple things well. I used to use Paint.NET on Windows. Now I’ve switched over to a Macbook and installed Photoshop thinking it’d be an upgrade of sorts. After 30 minutes of simply trying to make a bit fancy-pantsier header for my home here I’m calling schinanigans. Mono isn’t robust enough to get Paint.NET up and running on the Mac either…
Time to actually learn how to use Photoshop I guess… 
what exactly does photoshop fail so miserably at?
what I want it to
*bah-dum-dum-ching*
Have you ever used The Gimp? I use it for little things, and it’s not very bad.
I’ve used it for different things but someone needs to change that interface! I tried gimpshop (gimp with a photoshop like interface) awhile back but it was still crap. Maybe I’ll have to take a second look.