I wanted to give you a very cool idea this time!
There is this FREE SOFTWARE called the GIMP and it is a very good rival to PhotoShop, it is really easy to get to grips with using it. It also works on Mac OS X and Unix!
Also there is this website called Stock.xchng where you can find FREE Photos to add to your projects, most of these are marked as Royalty FREE and some are just marked as "let publisher know where/when used" no fees to pay.
The website also hosts photos that will cost a nominal fee but there is no need to use those unless they are the ones that you Must-Have to use in your project.
My suggestion is to take a look at this tutorial, yes people even show you how to use the different tools available for manipulating photos with on this website, it shows how to take a photo and convert it to a picture that looks like a ripped in half photo, very cool and useful!
Play with the Gimp and see what you can do with the many Plug-ins that are developed for it, you'll be pleasantly surprised to see all the support this software has and probably won't even give PhotoShop another look!
Gimp Basics
There is this FREE SOFTWARE called the GIMP and it is a very good rival to PhotoShop, it is really easy to get to grips with using it. It also works on Mac OS X and Unix!
Also there is this website called Stock.xchng where you can find FREE Photos to add to your projects, most of these are marked as Royalty FREE and some are just marked as "let publisher know where/when used" no fees to pay.
The website also hosts photos that will cost a nominal fee but there is no need to use those unless they are the ones that you Must-Have to use in your project.
My suggestion is to take a look at this tutorial, yes people even show you how to use the different tools available for manipulating photos with on this website, it shows how to take a photo and convert it to a picture that looks like a ripped in half photo, very cool and useful!
Play with the Gimp and see what you can do with the many Plug-ins that are developed for it, you'll be pleasantly surprised to see all the support this software has and probably won't even give PhotoShop another look!
Gimp Basics
