For the price of a full copy of Adobe Photoshop you can buy a brand-new XBOX. Unless you can get an "illegal" copy of Photoshop, I suggest you to try a free software called THE GIMP. It is very similar to Photoshop, but it's not so powerfull. Got to this page to download a windows version:
THE GIMP - windows version
I do all of my artwork using this software. This picture was drawn by hand with a black pen, and scanned. The colors and other details were all added using THE GIMP.
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