Great free photo editor...

[LA_MERC_MadMAX]

Guys - check out this program...it's called Paint.NET and I've played around w/ it a bit and I have been pretty darn impressed - it has a great set of features, even layers, and supports 32-bit as well as a native 64-bit version, it's optimized for Dual Core processors, and best of all it's free...

http://www.getpaint.net/index2.html