If you are looking for something comparable to Adobe Photoshop, then an
inexpensive alternative is Corel Paint Shop Pro which is less than $100. It
has most of the editing capabilities (filetypes, layers, plugins) that
Photoshop supports. I use Photoshop at work but wasn't willing to spend
that kind of cash at home and have been quite happy with Paint Shop Pro.


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During an upload of software the program halted and hasn't responded
since. Adobe tells me they no longer support 7.0 and looking on their
site is an overabundance of options NOT in reasonable price range for
what I'm after. One photoshop program is priced at almost $650.00.
All that I'm looking for is decoding the JPG files on the alt.binaries
newsgroups and others buried in posts. Using Windows XP for home for
info. What programs do others find viable?