@ skiwillgee: PaintShopPro has almost the same versatility as photoshop, and is a lot cheaper :-) Version 8 (which is the last but one version) is pretty good (as I understand it - I don't actually have it), and you could probably get it for under $50 (maybe a lot under). I have version 9, which I got for $78 (I think - not sure). I bought it just before Adobe took it over. There's now a PaintShopPro X available at Adobe (or so I was informed in one of the forums here). Cheers, Diolma