In a message dated 12/12/05 9:01:07 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes: ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Kemp To: cristy Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] Fw: copyrights, "Fair Use", and genealogy You can pay that much for Adobe Photoshop, but I have it and don't like or use it, I use Corel's JASC Paintshop Pro when I am on my Windows computer (which I use less and less). Paintshop Pro sells for around $100. Actually a much better program, which is more powerful than either of those, is "the Gimp". the Gimp is available only for Linux, but like most all programs written for Linux, it is better than anything written for Windows and also like most all programs written for Linux, it is FREE!! FREE!! FREE!! With any of them you use it takes much practice and a bit of talent. It's not a case where the program does it for you. You must tell the program what to do along the way. Tim Some yrs. ago I was at a genealogy seminar and they had a person demonstrating Photo Suite 4 and it does all that one wishes to do with photos/graphics and such. As a promo the man demonstrating for the company gave those present a discount on purchasing the program that day which I did and not sorry at all. While reading my digest today called my son in and told him you all were discussing photo retouching/repairing and he said I should mention that the GIMP is made for window which his uses and that the URL for this is _www.gimp.org_ (http://www.gimp.org) . Now I was smart enough to put that URL into my browser and I got the GIMP opening page so I know that it works. By the by I am still into Access Genealogy's free census site and find more and more of my ancestors there. Spent 4 hrs here as of yesterday. Time is getting short on using this as the 15th is coming up fast. Beej (http://siggiez.com/countdownz/ch/index2.cgi)