Unless you need all the bells and whistles, you can get Photoshop Elements 2 for about $100 US at any software outlet, probably cheaper online. If there's anything missing from the full Photoshop that I need, I have no idea what it would be.

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy