<div class="quote_poster">Hudge Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Sorry I thought it was different for user bars.</div>You don't have to use Photoshop. You can use programs like Fireworks (formerly made by Macromedia, bought out by Adobe, who make Photoshop) or even Paint Shop Pro, but Photoshop is top of the pile and most professional graphic designers use it, so it's definitely the best for amateurs like us who just make sigs and user bars.