photo editing software

Does anyone know where I can download free photo editing software? If there is no quality free software, can you tell me some quality ones and ones that are somewhat cheap?

Thanks.
Alex

Often you get a program when you buy a scanner or a digital camera.

Hellashot

I understand a pretty nice free one is PhotoPlus 5.5 ( http://www.freeserifso​ftware.com/serif/ph/ph​5/index.asp ). Note that they'll make you register it with in 30 days to keep it working, but it's still free. It's an old version (8 is the current).

As for quality ones that are "somewhat cheap", I'd suggest Paint Shop Pro 9, or Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 (new, shipping shortly). Both can be had for $100 or less.

Tough choice, but if I could have only one, it would be Elements!

You might also want to consider the up-and-coming Photofiltre
www.photofiltre.com , it's french-based and still early in it's evolution but has lots of promise and is completely free.

Also, try the GIMP www.gimp.org, a little hard to learn but extremely powerful. The windows version used to lag behind the Linux one, but they're pretty good at keeping up now.

Thank you all for your help. I will probably try some of the free software you mentioned. Also, I am planning on buying a digtal SLR and that will probably come with photshop.

Thanks again.
Alex