List of Products Available

Paint -
Cost: Free
Quality: -200
Usability: Easy
From: Comes with Windows

Paint.net -
Cost: Free
Quality: 180
Usability: Easy
From: http://www.getpaint.net/

Fireworks -
Cost: £270
Quality: 400
Usability: Medium
From: http://www.adobe.com/

Photodraw -
Cost: £953
Quality: 560
Usability: Hard
From: http://www.adobe.com/

I use Fireworks as it nice and good quality but is easy enough to use

um,i tried with paint.when i save,it's shape is square not circle.help!

Very interesting spazturtle, thx for this

Wow, paint.net is awesome! i HIGHLY recommend it now!

GIMP 2.6 www.gimp.org better than Photshop and absolutely free....
Very good with PNG transparency. Worth learning, easy if you are OK with Photoshop.

Paint.NET is ok (using it at work), but I prefer Paint Shop Pro. Does almost everything that Photoshop does, but is more intuitive and way less expensive. GIMP... works "differently". Definitely not to everyone's taste.

Edit: I forgot to add that I like and use PSP 9. Since Corel took over, it kinda sucks.

I, personally, hate Paint Shop Pro. It only has lots of stuff that nobody would EVER use, and a few things people WOULD use.

i love Paint.net, works great and has a good list of useful tools

Paint.net and Gimp are about the same quality,but paint.net is easier to use.

jmeleven,macromedia flash pro has unuseful tools but it's the most popular flash animator on internet.

It all depends on what you're doing. If you can stomach it, learn GIMP. It's really powerful. If you don't like the learning curve, use something else.

This is a nice debate. I like to use Adobe products, or else Gimp.

make sure the back is the white and grey squares, not just white

Please don't bring up old threads.