Pixel is another Photoshop like image editing software. It has most of the features of PS and you can also do some basic animation just like in ImageReady. Since the interface is similar to photoshop, getting used to it is simple. Whats more it can run on Linux, MacOS, FreeBSD and many other OS. And the final release price is just set at $79! that is approx. $400-500 less than PSCS2. I suggest you won't try the beta version until the stable ver. is released. http://www.kanzelsberger.com/pixel/?page_id=7