Originally Posted by
Gravity
heres my tip to you,
Gimp.org
Gimp is a free editing program, jsut youtube some basic tuts in order to get it functioning with the displayed layer box like photoshop. there are even brushes, and some really good plugins that function like the photoshop layer effects.
I know a few guys that do amazing stuff with this program, and yes you can do basically everything you want in it like you see in ps, the only difference is that it takes a little more program menuvering to get the same effects