Any awesome professional image editing software except Photoshop?

Question

I'm kinda tired of Photoshop, just wondering if there is some other really serious and professional level software besides it? There is a whole lot of editing software, but there shoud be something standing out, like you can't name too much professional video editing tools (Premiere, Vegas, something else and its pretty much it).

Answer 1

Corel Photopaint is one high-end image editing program you could try, I've used it in the past and it shares much of its functionality with Photoshop. There's also GIMP, which can do many of the things Photoshop can do but because it's free it's not really considered 'professional software'.

Answer 2

Ditto darwin916.com, above (gets the points!) - picasa puts up one heckuva slide show, easily (premium for that); primitive photo editing; then Gimp provides premium photo editing. Get both.

Answer 3

Window's Paint.

Answer 4

a Cheap Professional Image Editor is GIMP which is free :D

Answer 5

http://picasa.google.com/

http://www.gimp.org/

Answer 6

What about:

Corel Paint Shop Pro X2

PaintShop Pro

PhotoLine (mac only)

PixelMator (Mac only, I think. Very pretty website as well)

GIMP or GIMPshop (though its pretty lame in comparison to others)