Oh, of course the program is free.

___While procrastinating on homework today I came across a rather interesting ad for GIMP (an open source (read free) photo editing program). To be more specific it was an ad for GIMP tutorials.
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___By my reckoning there are at least three things wrong with this ad:
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___First, the entire point of using GIMP is that it is pretty much as powerful as Photoshop with the important side note that it's free, Photoshop is around $300 (for the student version, its $700 for anyone else). It might also be the time to note that the tutorial advertised was selling for $300.
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___Second, there are probably over 1,000,000 excellent Photoshop tutorials online that only use basic photo editing functions non-unique to Photoshop (And easy to find in GIMP) just a Google search away, and none of them cost. On top of that GIMP, being the open source program that it is, has a large online support community full of tutorials and forums with helpful people that spend more time that sense showing you how to do anything you could possibly want to do in GIMP.
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___Third, and perhaps most importantly, the ad was advertising for GIMP version 1.4, the current version is 2.6.
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___I have to ask, who in their right mind is actually going to buy this? Maybe it's better just not to ask.