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People at adobe should be horsewhipped for making it so unintuitive and difficult to use. My theory is that its intentionally this way. They have no real competition and most people use it for that reason and because "everybody else uses it". They know that the more time and effort you invest in it, the less the chances of you throwing all that time away to start over with something else. So there is virtually no effort on their part to make it even a little bit intuitive. And adobe is second only to micro$oft in doing everything they can to crush any semblance of competition.
PS is extremely powerfull once you have used it a few years, there is no substitute for it once you really know how to use it. The problem is there will never be any competition for it because after you have struggled for hundreds if not thousands of hours learning it you aint going to even think about going through that again with something else. And they know it.
The $500 you pay for it is just a very small down payment, the amount of time you waste in the first year or two figuring it out will be enormous. And time is money. Even though i use it extensively now, and even though its extremely powerful, i regularly question whether its been worth the cost i have paid. Sometimes i dream of what i would like to do to adobe engineers if i could catch them in a back alley somewhere.
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