Adobe Photoshop is a very powerful photo editing and graphic design software tool, but most people don't need it.

GIMP is very powerful but also has quite a learning curve. The way you do things on GIMP is different than the way you would do them on Photoshop.

I do all my work in Photoshop with my xp-pen star G430 ( https://www.xp-pen.com/product/46.html ) drawing pad , it's by far my favorite program. It's difficult to learn but once you get the hang of it it's worth it.