I sorta work in a lab. The home office in CA has a solid lab but most of the time I work out of my house (in FL). I've built up a "lab" in one port of my garage. How many people have an optics table in their garage?

We used to have a license to the MATLAB image processing toolbox but I didn't keep it. I had to modify so many of the scripts and understand what they were doing that it was just faster to write my own. That's the problem I've always had with PS. Yes, there are some powerful tools but the math behind them isn't always exposed - not to mention anything that requires mouse input. I'm not an artist! Thanks for the input though. It's always good to have a better understanding of the tools available as one never knows when the need for them may arise.