Photoshop VS everything else

[Farvus]

I work in studio that does casual games and I do all sorts of stuff there. Painting is only small percent of that job. There's preparing textures, retouching certain things, making user interface (vector shapes and layers styles help here a lot), compositing images together and many other things. I think that's the reason that Photoshop is the default program for 2d artist. It's universal, fast and very reliable. Once in a while we tried doing some stuff in Gimp and it almost always lacked some option or functionality to do the job quickly.

What I would like to see more in Photoshop is more customizable and comfortable color palettes for painting and better brush stroke smoothing. Perspective grid snap would be nice addition too.