I brought a copy of Shadermap Pro yesterday for only $20, money well spent I think, very happy.

Have played around with Crazybump before, but yeah the $300 price tag is unreasonable for what you get compared to Shadermap Pro.

Love the batch generate option in Shadermap Pro and all the maps looked really impressive when I brought the generated maps into gamestudio. The downside is the program is a little less customizable when compared to crazybump, but the latest update has offered more customization and the next few updates they've been talking about on the forum sounds like the customization will be on par with crazybump soon.

Overall I think it's a handy tool for us indies wanting to save time and lots of money to get our games to look a little more next generation