GIMP is by far the best free image editor around, it rivals Photoshop in several areas.

http://www.gimp.org/

Official main site, if you use windows and you want the exe installer go to http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/

So many cool things have changed in this realease if you use gimp download this immdiatly.

Thanks, wasn't even aware a big update was in the works, nice update too