>>>>Yes, but Gimp does have a bit of a learning curve. <g>
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>>>There's always PainBrush :)
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>>I use Gimp, but for simple stuff. It's power is great, but it's going to intimidate most users. I've no need for heavy photo editing or image creation, so I only scratch the surface of its capabilities.
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>I may be doing a bit more than you do, but that's not much either. I may tweak the contrast and hue, crop the image and that's pretty much it. I haven't even tried to get into script-fu, though I imagine it may be powerful.

I did use it awhile back to lighten some very underexposed pictures. It actually did a quite nice job.