Photoshop isn't too hard to learn just by playing around with it. I started with Corel Photopaint 8.0. I got photoshop 7.0 from a class in highschool. It took me about 2 weeks to apply what I knew in corel to adobe. What i'm saying is that once you understand the concepts of what you can do with images, you can use any program.
Then maybe I am going to dowload something like a test version, because I got along with GIMP very well (what some people call photoshop's retarted brother^^).
You, sir, are a genius. Wow.