New intuos4... Software choice. HELP!?

[DesignBySLS]

Any thoughts on selecting between the lot of these:

 

I get 2:

 

AND Pick 2 of the following:

 

Adobe? Photoshop? Elements (PC) (457 MB)

 

Autodesk? SketchBook? Express 2010 (28 MB)

 

Corel? Painter? Sketch Pad (74 MB)

 

Anyone used any of these?

 

I should note I am notably a fireworks lover.

[falkencreative]

I've used Painter, and Photoshop obviously (though not the Elements version, which as far as I understand it a stripped down version of Photoshop).

 

Photoshop might make sense if there is image editing you need to do that Fireworks can't handle (again, not sure, I've only briefly played around with Fireworks). As for the other two, I guess it depends on how much digital artwork you do...

[DesignBySLS]

I have fireworks on both laptop and desktop (desktop with custom assets, etc.), photoshop 7.0 on desktop (have added custom brushes, etc. that would take months to recompile for newer versions) but with running vista on the laptop it won't take my photoshop 7. *grin* I had elements in the past... I am pretty much leaning toward that with one of the other two. It is the other two I have been mulling over for the last 12 hours.