Something I enjoy is playing with Paint Shop Pro to create or (more often)
modify images. But I would never claim to be artistic. One thing about a really good graphics program is that it makes it easy to get great effects and good-looking images.
And I'd say that the corollary to that is that a really good artist can make something good with almost any tool. Like... say...
Lipstick, or
vegimite.
Or harder still, MS Paint!