On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:27:43 -0500, Richard
wrote:

On 4/23/2013 10:11 PM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

"DoN. Nichols" wrote:

"Or equivalent" should inclued "the GIMP" -- especially for your
linux boxen. I believe that gimp is also available compiled for
Windows, and is certainly a *lot* more affordable than PhotoShop is.


Yes, GIMP is available for Windows. I've used it with XP& Win 7.


Gimp?

Gag!

Dood, I lived with Photoshop for 20 years. I'm not paying for it
anymore. And I find that Gimp is about equal to Photoshop 5. If you
only use manual controls -- and that's all I use -- it works great.

I can show you a heavy background-editing job I did with Gimp, if you
want to see the before-and-after.

--
Ed Huntress