I am not such a good designer but all the time I use Photoshop

I like it because there many nice tutorials over the internet for photoshop.

I use Photoshop , I used from the start and now it`s easy to work with it. I also like Corel but I only do design elements ( shapes of people , cars , houses etc ) using black.

I think most of the people use adobe tools.

I remember the times when Paint Shop Pro was the best way to go.
The first version I used was 2 or 3 in the early 90s on Windows 3.11.

I use paint shop too, whatever happend to paintshop?

Corel bought it. Now the version number is 11.
I stopped using it when I first used Photoshop.

Ahh I see. There was a package about the same time called Aldus Pagemaker, I remeber I went on a two week course on how to use pagemaker to layout pages for printing

Yeah. Adobe bought that one.

Actually when I look back there were so many software developers producing different apps. And now, all those apps were bought by software giants.

That is the nature of the beast Melky, if you do not buy them out quicly the will become a Google and bite you in the bum like Microsoft and Yahoo are experiencing now.
MS did actually try to buy Google but the boys will not sell to MS, I don't know if Yahoo tried to buy them too.

I remeber MS bought Hotmail for a few thousand pounds back them so its in your business interest to buy or invest in a promising business in your filed that could one day become a rival