I never thought I would be posting this but for those that are tired of Adobe's hand in your pocket month after month for Photoshop, Corel Paintshop Pro is awesome (under 50 bucks) there is a small learning curve, like finding where things are or what they call it in their software. It has most of the same features and can read and save .psd files, has batch processing and built in scripts. You can even create your own Actions know as Scripts in Corel. It has saved my bacon, and without the monthly fee I can afford more bacon