What free Photoshop-esque programs do you recommend?

I don't want a shady website that will infect my computer and I need something that really works.





I take a lot of photographs but cannot justify buying software when I don't get paid for it.





Is there any kind of download that I can access that is good quality and won't bug up my computer?





Thank you! : )What free Photoshop-esque programs do you recommend?
GIMP is a great photo editor. Its free to download. Very in depth and has a lot of tools very similar to Adobe photoshop.What free Photoshop-esque programs do you recommend?
You may want to download [for free], the predecessor to Photoshop which was Adobe PhotoDeluxe by conducting a google.com or yahoo.com search for ';Photodeluxe free download.'; PhotoDeluxe is a full-featured photo editor [like Photoshop] but in a simpler more user-friendly format.





Good luck!
i had a very similar problem. The best in my experience has been google's picasa for pure photo-editing. For more design oriented tools that are like photoshop (like ability to paint over, brush, and those things) i use splashup.com. It has a little bit of a learning curve, but when you get the hang of it, it works fine. I use a combination of the two for photoediting.





the quality of these two programs are very good and they will definitely not slow down your computer
Well I do picnik.com it's not photoshop but it's absolutely amazing. Try it out.
picnik.com is my favorite :)