[Cow Bell Solo]

I have used both, and personally would prefere the GIMP. I can find that most of the functions that you are going to use can be done with both. I will agree that sometimes with the GIMP it can be hard to know exactly on how to do it. All of the photos and images on our team website, this year and last years website(which I don't have currently up(last years)), were edited using the GIMP. For what you can do with both I would say go with the GIMP as it is free. Also my avatar was made with the GIMP(I know that it isn't that good as I threw that together in a second), and also the animation that I had before using (it was a robot that came in off screen and removed the red X when a picture is unable to load in windows, for those that might of seen it before). Okay now time for me to be quiet and and let you choose.