The Best Photo Editing Program?

I like photoshop but I've been using it for a while

Well like everything else.. patience is a virtue I was born without.

I've gotten the hang of it though and created my first animated banner with it. I'd like to master that and get into the art of creating Flash Animated Banners. I could probably make some nice money out of this.

i guess i am too lazy to learn others so i stick to photoshop cs, and there's still alot for me to learn from it....

photoshop will be on the top of my list though im just a beginner, its quite an exciting piece of software imho... but if you're not too particular about your output, like you're planning to mass produce all sorts of banners for a bunch of your websites then you could get those user-friendly 5-clicks-and-your-done softwares, like banner maker pro (specifically for banner making) but im sure there are far better ones, just letting you know that there are also softwares that could help you complete tons of work in a jiffy...

Photoshop / Fireworks is the best. I tried other software but, nothing compares.Yeah, it is a pain to learn but, there're tons of tutorials (text and video) online.