Does anyone know if there is a decent freeware picture editor available?

[henk brouwer]

I recommend Gimp for windows, you can find it at http://www.gimp.org there should be a link to "gimp for windows" when you scroll down a bit.

It has almost all the functions of expensive programs like photoshop, but it's free :-). There are a few issues, like it doesn't work very well with graphic pads like wacom etc, but other then that it's a great program.