Recommendation

When I was in grad school and college, I did a fair amount of IT work to help pay the bills. In fact, I have done some sort of IT work or another ever since high school. That has meant that I have always ahd access to the latest software, and I sort of got spoiled by that. In particular, I always loved photoshop and prefered to use it to work with graphics on my computer. However, once I was out of the IT world, I was not about to shell out $650 dollars to put photoshop onto my personal computer.

What I have found, however, is a wonderful solution. GIMPshop is a free, open source photo editing software, developed to mimic photoshop. If you do a fair amount of photo or graphic manipulation, GIMPshop (or its predecessor, GIMP) are worth looking into. They are certainly more affordable.