Photoshop Help!

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    I've been using Paint Tool SAI for a year now and although I absolutely adore it, I also wanted to look into getting Adobe Photoshop for my digital art. However I've come across a few problems that I need help with. Two things really...

1. Is there a specific Adobe Photoshop that is good for digital art? I've seen a lot of digital artists use Photoshop but when I went to go buy it there seemed to be several different kinds of Photoshop.

2. Is Adobe Photoshop a monthly/yearly payment or a one-time payment?

(Any sort of information is helpful! ^^ )
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1. I have CS2 on this laptop and used CS3 a lot in the past, but I lost the program when that computer died a couple years ago. CS2 now is a bit of a downgrade but I don't find that it's missing anything major-- I'd say that's the absolute minimum if you have to go PS. But I have SAI and PS2 here and I use SAI for the majority of my work. I think it's better for colouring and the lines are cleaner. The two edges PS has are more advanced colour editing options (SAI NEEDS more than HueSatBri and Contrast, plz and thx!) and the Liquefy filter. Also way more layer modes, but I hardly ever use those anymore. Photoshop is now just my tool for fixing proportions in sketches and doing any post-processing. So I would disagree with the other two and say go CS2 or CS3. (But I've never tried anything above CS5, the trial download for Cloud was hell on my connection and CS6 I just haven't bothered with.)

3. The versions I have were one-time payment. In retrospect, not sure they were entirely worth it, especially since there's pixlr.com/editor/ for everything but Liquefy.

Whatever you decide to go with, I'd strongly suggest choosing a version that will let you do a trial. If you don't love it after a month, don't buy it.