Painter or Photoshop?

I'm finding more and more that the answer is both. It's really convenient to run them side by side and utilize the tool sets in both, going back and forth. It's how I've been working a lot lately and I'm diggin on it immensely! Since PSD is a native format in painter it's no thing to move back and forth these days. I'll generally draw and sketch in painter and then move over to texturing and manipulating the image(s) in PS, then back to painter for the painterly finish with oils, effects or the like. This way I make use of the strengths of both pieces of software. Uber powerful workflow. Hope that answers that nagging question for ya's D