I use a free program called paint.net and i heavily modded it. It's not that hard to edit images. The one thing that i do that i found helps me alot is always keep the original (Master) file untouched. once you load the image in the editor, save it as something else.. ex: if u have an image called 001.jpg load it in your editor.. then save it as 001a.jpg or newpix.jpg etc... that way if u find you hate the edits or messed up etc all you have to do is back out of it and reload the unedited master again and resave as something else and so on. 1 thing to remember, however u find yourself working with any file or project, that is your style, there is no right or wrong in it, thats what makes it specially and uniquely yours! As long as you like it is all that matters.. i promise there will always be someone out there that loves your style
Hope this helps ...
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