I've used Ultimate Paint for many years now. It's a really cool fully featured art program that lets you manipulate photos and create your own masterpieces. Here's a brief summary.
http://www.ultimatepaint.com/
Please give this art editor software a try and comment if you like it.
Ultimate Paint is a full-featured 32-bit Windows graphics program for image creation, viewing and manipulation. On this page you can download different versions, see what extras UP gives you compared to other paint programs, take a look at its cool plug-in effects, register the trial version and browse the tutorials.
In the latest trial version all basic functionality can be used without limitations. In addition we have also introduced a new freeware version.
http://www.ultimatepaint.com/
Please give this art editor software a try and comment if you like it.