[gondaloof]

It sounds you haven’t used anything past Photoshop 7 then, which I must remind you came out in 2002. First thing that comes to mind is content-aware fill, which came out 8 years later in CS5, if I remember correctly.

[bdcravens]

Depends on the use case. I've moved to lower-cost options like Pixelmator, but I'm not a professional designer.