I use GIMP to do a lot of my work... it's free and it can do most of things I can do in Photoshop. The menu system isn't too intuitive though.
Just recently I've been playing around with Inkscape... wow! It's perfect for things such as making flashy icon sets really quickly -- and again, it's free.
Everyone's gonna say Photoshop I know but I'm curious who else is using tools like I am... definitely worth trying out as an alternative
I voted Photoshop, but only coz there's no GD option. I make most of my title and button images with PHP these days. It's actually a lot easier when you need to make lots of them.
i havent used any graphics applications in quite a while tbh, but i have PSP7, PS7 + CS installed, i tend to use PS7 for most graphics, however ive seen a switch in my design trend now were i literally dont use any images from a site, all CSS based
personally I have The Gimp on here for any graphics work I do (which is rarely much more than image sizing), the designers use all kinds of things here like photoshop etc
I really would love to use Gimp, but im suck at it, but thanx you made me do something I was thinking of it long time ago which is google "Gimp tutorials" lol, btw I use photoshop at the moment
I'm a gimp fan, and it's getting better with every release. Photoshop is great but a bit pricey. I never really liked Fireworks, I don't think it turned out as good as they had in mind though.