Post what you use to create your pretty pictures :)

Personally i suck and don't have photoshop so am stuck with GIMP. It's a nifty free program seems to work great i haven't run into anything i can't do yet although am sure photoshop will be way better. As far as hardware goes am stuck with a mouse although have considered buying a graphics tablet :).

So what do you guys use?

pencils, a sketchpad and a scanner on my printer XD

Photoshop elements 5.0 It's miles behind the CS versions, but aside from 2 or three missing tool it's top notch for what I do.

Photoshop CS3 and lots and lots of patience.

I just purchased a Wacom Bamboo tablet and i got GIMP so i can now do sweet computer art like my avatar XD

photoshop cs4
illy cs4
cinema 4d r10
all the rest of the adobe creative suite cs4