Marcia - 12:13 am on Nov 12, 2001 (gmt 0)

Photoshop is great, and I found it easier to catch on to than Paint Shop Pro for some reason, but most people find the opposite. PSP is much cheaper and there are loads of simple tutorials out there. It's also got a lot of features now that make things very simple for beginners, like buttonizing nav buttons or banners. It comes with an animation program, and there are sometimes rebates available. Best thing to do is go right to the jasc.com site and download a trial, then look for a rebate to buy - or get the boxed version if it's currently coming with a book thrown in free. The trial is 30 days, but used to last for 60. It probably still does.

A nice little free program (that runs ads to support it) is 2020 [hotfreeware.com], which does screen captures, resizes and converts file formats, and does a fair bit with creating and editing images for being cost-free.

There are a lot of free programs out there, I imagine there must be some listed at ODP.