At $700, Photoshop is reserved for professionals and those with lots of spare cash. Did you know that there is a free alternative? The GNU Image Manipulation Program, lovingly referred to as GIMP has an active developer community, and is updated regularly. It can do pretty much anything that Photoshop can do.
GIMP has documentation in 10 different languages, including English, French, and German.
If you would like to see a free in person GIMP training class offered, please feel free to say so in the comment fields below. If there is enough interest, then I will most definitely setup a GIMP class.
For those that don’t know, Photoshop is the defacto standard software used to create and manipulate digital images. You may often hear people say, “oh, that picture was photoshopped”. This means that someone has altered the picture in some way. This statement is used whether the Photoshop software was used or not. Perhaps we need to start a new trend and say “Oh, that pictures has been GIMPed out”
