Photoshop wasn't even designed for the web...lol. :shakes head:
Another free paint but good program that is easy to use (that was suppose to be the replacement of the paint program in Vista)....Paint.NET.
http://www.getpaint.net/
I use PaintShopPro and ImageStyler (best thing I found for easy layouts, and it's ImageReady's granddaddy). ImageStyler makes vector shapes on the fly, easier than any other program that I know, and can move them around and arrange them with ease. 10x easier than cranking out a vector program with all those NURBs and crap.