I’ll just answer my own question. I’ve been using PSP X7 for two weeks now. I’ve barely touched the surface of what it can do, I’m sure, but I don’t find that it has a big learning curve. I love the fact that they brought back the mirror horizontal/vertical as a choice (amazing how much difference something so small can make). I was a little confused by the color choices at first, but I quite like the fact that you can create complimentary, triad, tetral, analogic and accented palettes without having to go outside of the program (am I lazy or what). I don’t always like the choices, but sometimes they push one to think out of a pattern (I seem to be stuck on light blues right now so it is time I move to a different color set). So far no big problems. Now I have to choose which of the older versions I delete…but I doubt if I’ll rush into anything.