On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:55:16 -0400, wrote:

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?


Firehand Ember. I have that, and it used to be free, but I haven't
checked in a long time.

One other possible alternative is Photoshop Elements. It's a pretty
nice subset of Photoshop. If you're willing to spend money and
continue with the commands you already know.