anyone heard of this alternative photo editing program? it's a free download and does lots of the same stuff as photoshop.
our local Higher Ed is offering a one day class for $120.00.

"How to use GIMP, the free alternative to Photoshop: Do everything you can do with Photoshop in GIMP - a free internet download! This workshop covers transparencies, red-eye removal, layers, cut, crop, selective colorization, file size reduction, smudge, blur, sharpen, and script-fu (programs to give your pictures incredible effects). GIMP will be used in the workshop, however, the information taught is transferable to Photoshop as well."

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Gimp is pretty good, especially for free.

Save the money....at least for now (save it for a bigger better lens) and start out with utube videos. Search for Gimp Tutorials. There are some really good ones. At a minimum start there and get very familiar with Gimp before taking any class. The same is true for photoshop but a little harder to sort through the good and the bad ones. It helps if you search for very specific actions you want to do. For example, search " "Gimp tutorial layer maskThis one shows you how to use them to colorize a photo using Gimp.

The nice thing about utube videos as you can bookmark them and refer back to them when needed.

thanks for your input! I like the program i'm currently using (picasa) and am still learning it. photoshop is expensive, but I guess even things that are free aren't always the best deal either.