I gotta say, you're gettin me really intrigued with SD+
What can I say? learning how to use it is a piece of cake. It's by far and away the fastest workflow graphic software I've ever come across. Sure, if you want to do huge maps with lots of fiddly bits, then nothing beats ps, but for working in vector/raster mix this just rocks (I'd say over and above Illustrator - which was so counter-intuitive I just hated it). There's a free download of an earlier version of it, all I can say, is give it a test drive.