I doubt you'll find any program that does it all. I recommend Photoshop, I use the v5 LE and for web work that's plenty. The only thing it can't do is animated gifs.
Go with either Photoshop or Gimp. They're pretty good. But for 3d, I would recommend using anything from autodesk.
Try gimp's official website http://www.gimp.org/ . One of those few proggies which is available on all popular operating systems.
Photoshop is by far best to make "graphics" with imo. But it depends on what you want to do of course.
Photoshop: retouching, photo editing, vector art, graphics design, layer styles, templates/site designs Anything can be done on it For animations you can use ImageReady instead
I used gimp before and like it BUT I notice i loose picture quality after a saved the project and upload it to the internet .. Does anyone els have this problem with the gimp and is there a way to fix it?
Photoshop can use for vector art? I think photoshop is a pixel based program and not vector based, or am I wrong?
What file type do you save it as? I use .png and it keeps its quality. And so does .jpg when i drag it up to 100% quality.
All my pictures i normally save it in .jpg format. The problem i normally after i upload it to the internet that the quality of the pictures goes down. Should pictures be uploaded in a sertain way ?
You're right. Photoshop is pixelbased. Illustrator is vector based though. But everyone have different definitions of vector art if you get what I mean.
this guy did a great write up on it: http://www.photoshopuser.com/cs3/sk_features.html #2 & #6 really interest me (as a photographer)