Using Adobe Creative Suite for web sites with Drupal

First, this is not about how to fully, automatically integrate CS and Drupal.  That would be nice, but I don't think there is a way yet. 
 
Instead, this is about my experience recently as I obtained Adobe Dewsign Premium CS4 and started to learn it.
 
I have been using CS4 for several months now.  I started my graphic editing with GIMP, an open source competitor to Photoshop.  I got an opportunity to acquire CS4, so I decided tos ee if it was all that much better than something like GIMP.
 
It has a learning curve, as do all new tools.
 
I got a book, Adobe Photoshop CS4 Classroom in a Book.  Recommended.  I have learned a lot about using Photoshop for editing photos, and for general graphics work.  I haven't found a lot yet that it can do and that I need to justify the replacement, but it is growing on me.  I am learning how to do things that I need for site graphics, and it is very good at that.  Maybe I will feel more positive when I finish the book.
 
I have also spent some time with Dreamweaver.  It has become my new editor.  When I had a disk problem on my PC, I didn't bother reinstalling Eclipse, as I haven't found anything I was doing that Dreanweaver couldn't do.  My current needs are limited to html, css, sql, php, and it works great for them.  I should learn more about it as I am sure it could help me even more, and I will probably get the Classroom in a Book for it, too.
 
I got the Classroom in a Book for Flash.  I haven't had time to spend with it, so more on it later.
 
Fireworks seems interesting.  It could provide a way to prototype sites more easily, but I will need to see if it helps enough since what is produced can't be directly moved into Drupal.
 
There are all kinds of other tools that came with CS4, and they have been helpful, although not yet compelling.
 
I haven't found that there is much yet that I can integrate with Drupal yet, but the two do cooperate, at least.  Drupal depends on CVS, which Dreamweaver doesn't support, so there is one clear miss.  But I haven't done much with directly contribution to Drupal yet, so it's not yet a problem.  It might be a reason to get Eclipse going again when the need arises.