Image Editing Software that Won't Take Half the Day to Download?

[Meow]

i'd like to download a solid image editing program to get my hands dirty messing with such things, but i don't really feel like waiting through the marathon d/l that is the Adobe Photoshop Demo Version. Does anyone know of a solid program that isn't so huge? i've heard here and there of freeware stuff, but if the best you can give me is the link to the thirty-day trial of program <i>X</i>, that'll do fine.

[Dr Unne]

http://www.gimp.org/
http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html

6 or 7MB, legally free.

[Meow]

Ah, that's the one; many thanks. When i heard about Gimp, i was under the impression that it was Linux-only, so i didn't make any mental note of it.

...i'd be a Linux-user, but i'm so lazily content with Windows. Bad self, bad.

[Rainecloud]

I was surprised with the quality of Gimp. It's actually quite good.

[Dr Unne]

The version that was ported to Windows is the old version though. There's a spiffy new version out now that hasn't made it to Windows yet.

[Meow]

Question 2: Is there any online help documentation for Gimp that you'd particularly recommend? i'm starting to look at the on-site and user-created info listed at the site itself, but hey - there's always the chance that the best online resource out there was overlooked.