Is Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended worth the £887.12 price tag or does the The Gimp (sounds like a character out of a Quentin Tarantino film) have better functionality.
Try and get hold of an American copy if you can, it costs $950 on Amazon.com - about £500. Yep, a £350+ difference for the same product bought somewhere else - the reason I currently refuse to buy anything by Adobe.