Here's all of that introductory blah: Gimp's main site: http://www.gimp.org/ Windows users can get Gimp here (you will need to install Gimp, and the Gimp runtime env.): http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html ^^that is the latest stable version of gimp, if you want you can search for Gimp 2.3 on google, but be advised that that version is currently not stable. I used it, it's pretty buggy for me. OK now that that's over this tut will prolly take you like 5 seconds go here to download and install the pspi plug-in for gimp Windows users put the exe here: C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins Linux users put pspi and pspi.exe.so here: ~/.gimp-2.2/plug-ins once you've done that run gimp if you've done everything correctly you should see "Photoshop Plug-in settings" under Xtns did you mess anything up? select "Photoshop Plug-in settings" and specify a folder where you will store all of your photoshop plugins, exit gimp, find some photoshop plug-ins, put 'em your specified folder, restart gimp and voila! you should see all of the photoshop plug-ins under your filters list here's some plug-in resources for you: http://thepluginsite.com/resources/freeps.htm http://www.freephotoshop.com/html/free_plugins.html and http://www.freephotoshop.com/html/free_plugins2.html and I'm sure you can find tons more, just google it Hope you found this tut helpful, next tut will be Image extraction
no it's different than photoshop, yes it is free, yes it is 1337 - cause it's open source I choose gimp b/c it was different, and I like the challenge it presents (learning a new interface, etc.). I figured if I could learn gimp and be good at it then that would actually mean something b/c it seems like everybody and their uncle uses photoshop