Photo Editiing

[Jean]

So what is the best photo editing software, at a reasonable price?

[Jonathan D Price]

personally, i like photoshop cs2 best (waaah, i haven't upgraded to cs3 yet....whatever). i don't know that everybody would consider it reasonably priced. although there are cheaper ways to get it...*COUGH*piracy*COUGH*....shhhh....

[JKS]

So, Jonathan, say that I didn't hear from someone about getting a clean pirated cs2 or 3 where might I not find it? ;0|

[Jonathan D Price]

what a confusing conversation this has turned into. anyways, hypothetically speaking...one might find such programs from places like the pirate bay or some other bittorrent trackers...

[JKS]

But I would hope that this "pirate bay" would have viruses attached to it's stolen programs so that these terrible people, who would consider infringing upon a copyright, would get what's "coming to them". So, are they 100% clean?

[Jonathan D Price]

i can't really attest to how clean the programs are from that particular location seeing that it's a public bittorrent tracker, so there may be a certain amount of risk involved...but a private tracker, such as pisexy is pretty much a completely safe thing...the only problem with the private trackers is that you have to catch them during an open sign-up period (they keep a limited amount of members to keep things running smoothly).

[JKS]

Is there any particular "good" time?

[Jonathan D Price]

not really sure, but if you want, i'll send you a message if i see open sign ups anytime soon...i guess if there's any other questions just send me a message so we don't have to hijack this discussion with naughty piracy any further. ;)
oh yeah, you may want to look at the gimpshop program (GIMP standing for "GNU Image Manipulation Program"). i haven't used it, but it's supposed to be similar to photoshop...except it's free, and open source. so it may be worth checking out. hope this has been at least somewhat helpful.

[JKS]

Very helpful. Going to send you a private message right now.