At 03:17 -0500 4/1/09, Linda wrote: >"You get what you pay for" is an old idiom of language; I know you didn't >pay anything, but because you didn't pay anything, you don't get as many >features as if you'd paid something. "You" is the collective you, not you >personally. "The gimp" which runs in UNIX including OS neXt is a free image editing program that is well documented and provided, with source code, under an open-software license. You get far more than the cost. But you do have to climb the learning curve though it's not much steeper than PhotoShop. You'll probably buy a book. For cropping and making short thumbnails there is also image magick which requires the command line but is free. -- --> From the U S of A, the only socialist country that refuses to admit it. <--