After much stumbling around and searching, I decided I didn't want to pay for photoshop, being that its rather pricey, and I'm rather poor. So my next search began and thats when i found GIMP. Its a tool almost identical to photoshop, that i've found is extremely useful for making my own tiles, sprites, and items. My personal favorite feature about it is that I can use it to lay down a 32x32 grid. This is a miracle as im sure most of you have found, when attempting to make your own sprites, etc. Overall it has some other great features you can tinker with when making your own GUI's as well. Hope you all enjoy this little gem. And as a final note, and to stress the point once again, its FREE. http://www.gimp.org/