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Katy (and Philip, and all),I find that GIMP does everything that I used to do in PhotoShop. Some of the things I do using GIMP now, I couldn't do in photoshop.
It's marvellous for cleaning up scans---see here for one of my favourite features (only in 1.1 or later).
If only people would stop emailing me MS-word documents, I could be totally free of Microsoftware.