Alan, There are several free/open source drawing tools: Inkscape http://inkscape.org/ GIMP (just released version 2.8! :) http://gimp.org Krita http://krita.org Paint.net http://getpaint.net Cheers! --Brylie Oxley http://brylie.gnumedia.org GNU.media http://gnumedia.org Libre Geoscience http://libregeo.org