[sionnsar]

I use the GIMP (image processing) and UFRAW (RAW image processing and conversion), which are free and run on both Linux and Windows. That's their upsides.

Downside is that the GIMP is still 8-bit, not 24 (32?) bit like Photo$hop, but I get excellent photos regardless. Also, the GIMP has the world's worst user interface. It's difficult to learn; I had to buy "Beginning GIMP" to learn how to do some operations.

Still, it's a powerful package.

[Pontiac]

Thanks for the info about freeware but I already have the Photoshop sweat because I repo’ed a computer from my stepson who flunked out of college.

It is a beautiful MAC G5 Quad Core 2.5 GHz with 8 gig of RAM.

Cost me a fortune with all of the college software I loaded on it. I’ll be darned if he was going to keep it after he blew all of that money on tuition so he could skip classes.

Now all I need to do is learn how to use the software someday. But in the mean time I take pictures and load them to disk.

[SeeSac]

Downside is that the GIMP is still 8-bit, not 24 (32?) bit like Photo$hop, but I get excellent photos regardless. Also, the GIMP has the world's worst user interface. It's difficult to learn; I had to buy "Beginning GIMP" to learn how to do some operations.

24 bit is actually 8 bit x 3 colors. GIMP outputs 8(24) bit for normal processsing. It will also output 16 bit for photoshop.