[scott_karana]

Pardon? I'm advocating Photoshop over Inkscape because, to my knowledge, only one of them excels at mixing raster and vector capabilities.

If I want a high-resolution vector button with the modified picture of a face on it, I know which program I'm choosing.

Was I that unclear?

> Gimp is for image manipulation, not drawing buttons.

> (implied) Inkscape is for drawing buttons, not image manipulation

Photoshop is used for both image manipulation and for drawing vector buttons, in its modern incarnations. That was my point.

[phaemon]

I see. So Adobe Illustrator is useless?

[scott_karana]

No, Illustrator is fantastic for its usage cases. (As I'm sure Inkscape might be)

We were talking about Photoshop replacements. Despite the name, it's very much a hybrid raster/vector tool now, unlike how the GIMP was described above.