I just ran across mention of this today. I haven't tried it, so I can't personally recommend it, but it looks like it's worth a try for anyone seeking a new image editing program, or even just looking to toy with something new.. since it's free. http://www.getpaint.net/index.html While I'm mentioning free image editors I'll bring up "The Gimp" again, another free editor. http://www.gimp.org/ I think I tried it out and found I didn't care for it at all, but I may just be too set in my ways with Photoshop. There are bound to be differences in how these programs handle the more complex functions, once I've learned how to do something in one program I dislike having to figure it out all over again somewhere else.