>But talking to my friends who use Photoshop, apparently the learning curve of GIMP is too steep. I'm a huge FOSS fan, so I don't say this as some sort of Adob

>But talking to my friends who use Photoshop, apparently the learning curve of GIMP is too steep. I'm a huge FOSS fan, so I don't say this as some sort of Adobe fanboy. GIMP has a lot of issues beyond the interface. Chief among them is a lack of nondestructive adjustment layers. That means it's a non-starter right off the bat for any photographer doing nonlinear postprocessing.