DDS 300–399 · Personal Logs, Letters, Marginalia
As a quasi-serious photographer, I have Photoshop Creative Suite loaded on all of my computers and it costed a pretty penny to do so.
For the rest of us, there is Paint.net, a downloadable alternative that has almost all of the features you want/need, but none of the cost. Layers, masking, special effects, etc […]
Recovered from the Internet Archive. The archived copy may be incomplete.
