If you need help with it just ask me. I'm about to get Adobe Photoshop certified, actually.In any case, as I continue my dragging task to find a nice program for clean lines (I would use the pen tool in Photoshop or Illustrator, but I'm not interested in vector art right now.) I stumbled across Krita. Its open sourced, free, and awesome. No fun without a tablet, but if you have one I'd highly suggest looking into it. It doesn't have much as far as effects go, but it has a massive (and I mean massive) brush library for painting, inking, and smuding, along with several smoothing options and stabilizers. And it also has a huge brush engine so you can make your own brushes easily. Its pretty storming sweet.