You still miss out on some of Photoshop's most advanced tools, but the gap is getting narrower. PaintShop Pro supports layers and lets you edit both raster and vector image formats-something you need two of Adobe's Creative Cloud apps to do.
Photoshop is a magnificent tool, but many of its users can get everything they need in Corel's photo editing software, PaintShop Pro, without having to pay a monthly fee to Adobe.