pain programs

I went over to office depot today and saw some pain programs. Ah sorry, it is PAINT we mean.  Oh wow, they were so expensive. Hey, what is now going on. Who wants to spend a few hundred smackers to get a new app. Sadly, most pain programs are crap. They do not do a lot more than windows paint which comes free with your pc. Also, they are not up to par. For example, take gimp. Perhaps a great example of open source. It jumps right out at you. Yeah, that program is super.