Adobe Photoshop is not any more the war tank of the professional photographer but other software have taken its place as the major editing platform.
As years went by Adobe Photoshop became more and more a tool for the graphic artist and less for the pro photographer.
Dominating specialized photographic software at this moment are Aperture from Apple and Lightroom from Adobe
An Adobe Photoshop free replacement editing tool is Gimp, gaining more ground as a decent software for image manipulation and it's free!
