I've been using GIMP for over a year now, and I think it is great! I've been able to use many of the tutorials written for Photoshop (creating denim, etc) using it, though everything is in a different place. Perhaps we should start a GIMP forum and start a GIMP tutorial section. I found it easier to figure out than Paint Shop Pro and even after a year, I still find new things that I didn't know about. One additional note, GIMP also allows Python scripting, so you can write your own scripts to do all the stuff you find yourself doing over and over again. eric