Open Photoshop Documents in Paint.Net
Paint.net is a great free image editor similar to Photoshop. It has some of the basic tools and filters, but of course without the expensive price tag. Paint.net allows you to create images with layers just like Photoshop. Unfortunately until now you couldn't open or edit Photoshop documents in Paint.net. With an aptly named plugin Paint.Net PSD Plugin you can now open and edit PSD documents.
This is huge for people who don't want to throw down the money for Photoshop but still want to be able to edit PSD documents. There are many times this will come in hand and to have a free application that can open PSD is sure to come in handy.
Give
Paint.Net a try and also the
Paint.Net PSD Plugin