fantomaster - 1:22 am on Jun 24, 2000 (gmt 0)

Using PaintShopPro most of the time for web graphics, too. It's fast and easy, if not overly featurized.

For the more sophisticated stuff: Corel 8 and Photoshop.

A neat tool for creating favicons is MicroAngelo [impactsoft.com].

For extracting icons: Icon Extractor [gregorybraun.com].

For animated graphics we use ULead's GifAnimator [webutilities.com].

Screenshots: Hardcopy [sw4you.com]

Registered Photo Impact the other day but haven't yet found the time to study the manual - I find it not that "intuitive" by itself, though I've been into graphics (DTP/WWW) for 12+ years.