Thanks , Joe. It was the manuals by you and klh that made me finally decide to start printing some off to hardcopy and assemble a nice binder. ( a la the old "Falcon 4" style)
What I'm hoping to do is paste the image inside of the existing stamp border somehow and apply some type of watercolor effect. Then overlay with some text.
Don't know if this is possible with a free program and limited knowledge. Will experiment with those programs you mentioned.
Eric