Yeah, Cuddles - PhotoEditor is nice little app - I don't know why it isn't loaded by default with M$office, I always have to put it on work puters that have had just a standard build, if I can't have Photoshop. But I find Irfanview can do just about everything PhotoEditor can nowadays (take into account the loss of gif transparency because of the legal thingie).

The Gimp does fall a bit short of Adobe's Photoshop, though. I found the older Gimp (the one I got with my first Knoppix) easier to learn on. I know a lot of people have griped about how the menu system changed. And Gimp has some filters but nothing compared to what Photoshop has and I haven't looked into any actions yet. It took me years to get where I am with Photoshop (which aint far ) so starting all over with Gimp is not appealing. But I will do it. Still wish there was something like Illustrator for the Linuxers... Karbon isn't ready yet with eps and likely never will be. Am checking out Sketch and some other things like Sodipodi.

Oh, if you think my abstract is mesmerizing, check it out on my old home page (warning: not updated in ages and has crashed moz in linux once or twice) http://home.earthlink.net/~smqdash

I originally used it for my active desktop with a java applet