How would I do so? Is it even possible?
What do you mean by “a photoshop program”?
PhotoShop is the name of one specific program. It’s a complex, hard-to-learn program aimed at professional graphic artists and the like. It’s not something you can just sit down with and expect to be immediately productive with.
If you just need something to manipulated photos or other graphics, there’s lots of free and easy-to-use options you can get off the Web. For photos, I really like Picassa.
For graphics besides photos, if you’re on a Windows computer, Windows built-in Paint program does basic graphic manipulation. I’m sure there’s other stuff out there as well, but I don’t know what’s great. Someone will be along soon who does, though.
http://www.gimp.org/ for a downloadable free ‘photoshop program’
Sumo - Creative tools for curious minds for a web based one.
Paint.net is one of the better free graphics programs. It’s a bit more sophisticated than Picasa, I think.
It can do layers, vector graphics etc., whereas Picasa seems to be meant just for touching up photos.
One option: You can download a 30-day trial version of Photoshop CS3 or Photoshop Elements 8 from the Adobe website.
Sorry, I should’ve been more specific. I learned some graphic designing toward the end of college. I took a continuing education class, and I was able to gain access to macs with Adobe Photoshop CS3 (I believe) and Adobe Illustrator CS3 at my school’s computer lab. Well, now I graduated, and my computer user account has expired.
Photoshop live on the web. 
I’m still not entirely sure what you’re asking. Photoshop is too expensive a program to likely be on things like library computers, so unless you’ve got friends or employers who own it and let you use their computers, your best bet for “gaining access” is the same as for any other non-free software: buy it.
You can sometimes get older versions relatively cheaply. If that’s still too expensive, there are lots of competitors as described in previous posts (and Adobe’s consumer-level versions are pretty good, too).
While you were still going to school you could have purchased your own copy at a student discount. I know from experience that Adobe programs are not cheap. If you plan on making some money doing graphic design, keep your receipt and write it off as a business expense. (Based on your accountant’s advice, of course; I’m not one nor do I claim to be. 
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Your local FedEx Office (aka Kinkos) should have Adobe CS3 one one or more computers, so you can go there and rent computer time by the hour.
How to get real software real cheap.
Go to local Community College. Check out campu book store - do they have the “academic” version of whatever at a decent price.
Note: “acedemic” versions used to be full versions, just discounted to build brand loyalty among students.
If it is there, enroll in any course you want - the point is to get a real student id - with the id, you can now go to the bookstore any buy your heart’s desire(s).
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Some computer parts stores license academic as well as OEM versions - used to be, you buy a cable - it counts as establishing that you are building a computer, hence are the origianl manufacturer of said computer, hence eligible to buy OEM software. Bill Gates didn’t like that - last time I built one ('96), you had to buy at least a m/b and cpu to get OEM software
Yes. GIMP is a great open source alternative to Photoshop.
(Note that “Quoting” your entire message left it insufficient to be meaningful! Repeating the subject in the message may always be a good idea.)
As others mentioned, Gimp is free.
Another alternative is to fly to a country like Thailand where most computers come with a free copy of PhotoShop preinstalled! 
This may seem like an overly expensive option, even flying coach class, but, assuming you lack dental insurance, the trip will pay for itself if you combine it with, for example, a needed root canal. 
By the way, I’m not completely computer illiterate but find it hard to learn programs like PhotoShop or Gimp. (Yes, I need to buy a book, but my Want-To-Read list is already very long.) Gimp shows a “Tip” every time it starts up but, exaggerating slightly, the typical “Tip” is If you hold down Control and Shift while triple-clicking on the Brush Tool and standing on your head, you’ll get … !! :rolleyes: I don’t want to memorize all this gibberish for a program I very seldom use.
I end up doing most edits with a simple Paint program, then need to export to Gimp for some other function. I’m not even sure which file format is best for the Export; about all I’ve learned is that Image formats with the word “Portable” in their name, tend not to be portable. :smack:
I have Photoshop CS4 on my computer. You could come to my place.
GIMP is excellent but not the least bit user friendly. Oh it’s a great program all right, no questions, but be prepared to spend a least one or two days working with it to get to know all it can do. It’s best to see if you’re library has a book on it. The Chicago Public Library did and it cut my learning time in half