I was looking through Lissa's html tutorials and i noticed that the only graphics editing software she recommended was Jasc Paint Shop Pro and Adobe Photoshop. Both of those are commercial closed source programs.

I wanted to bring to the board users attention an open source (free) alternative. It's called GIMP (GNU image manipulation program) and was originally programmed as a Linux alternative to Photoshop, etc. Now there is a windows version (it also appears they have a MacOS version, but i've never used it) of it. I've never used Photoshop myself, but many people say GIMP is just as or nearly as good as Photoshop. Anyway, give it a try!
http://www.gimp.org/

And no, I don't work for GIMP. They are an open source non-profit group.

Lots of members already use the gimp and it gets recommended on the forum often :)

hmmm... I searched GIMP before I posted and nothing showed up. Infact, I just searched again and my post didn't even come up. Is the search function disabled?

it's a 4 letter word, has to be a minimum of 5 letter unless lissa inputs it and now i know the other word i wanted her to put in, gimp..lol

You're right...i think the smallest words you can search for are 5 letters, anything under than and Lissa needs to manually add it...i'll let her know to add GIMP :)

edit: Rosey beat me too it :P