Quote Originally Posted by irishron2004
For those who want to fight, I throw my hat in with PaintdotNet.
Paintdotnet is free and opensource (want to help a good cause?) and easy to learn, Gimp is free and a sharper learning curve, and Photoshop is too damn expensive for no more than I do graphics.

One man's meat is another man's poison to coin an old phrase.
Im not trying to fight, I just am pointing out alternatives. And I agree, GIMP was tough for me to try to learn after my photoshop expired. So I used paint.net and thought it was much better.