[Tony_photoplus]

Try this if you haven't already..
http://www.getpaint.net/
But what didn't you understand about PS and Gimp? Gimp can be very unfriendly agree, so here are some links if you still want to get a handle on it

http://athena.nucleares.unam.mx/~fed...-the-gimp.html

http://www.freecolormanagement.com/c...r_manager.html

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

http://registry.gimp.org/index.jsp

http://gimp-plug-ins.sourceforge.net/

http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/board.php

http://plasticbugs.com/

http://design.rainharbour.net/resources.php

You can download the Gimp manual as an extra download from the gimp site