[damon_c]

I had this problem.

Pixelmator and Acorn for Mac are not perfect replacements but after awhile you figure out what they do well and you start to not miss Adobe products.

also iDraw... all of them together are trivial in cost compared to anything Adobe.

[kalleboo]

As a developer, I have to be able to open our designer's PSDs to extract elements. He's always using the latest features as well so I have to keep up with the new versions...

There are no alternatives that have even half-way decent PSD support (through no fault of their own, of course).