Need pic program

[Bigrick31 10+ year member]

Im trying to help design a website right now and a need a good pic program. i have tried downloading a few from download.com but they wont open rihgt. mainly what i am trying to do is fade a pic out so i can put a black overlay on it and make the pic black and white faded into the background.

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[Bigrick31 10+ year member]

when i downloaded that from download.com i tried opening it. a window came up that said select program or let windows select program to open it. so i let window pic. then it said it was an unknown file type. so i downloaded winzip and tried that and all that did when i extreacted it was bring up the samre exact message i cant figure out what to do to get it to work.

 

[Gauntlet 5,000+ posts]

If you can't run an executable or extract an archive, perhaps you shouldn't jump right into graphic design.

 

[Bigrick31 10+ year member]

If you can't run an executable or extract an archive, perhaps you shouldn't jump right into graphic design.

I have no problems doing this on my computewr however my computer is down and i am now using my aunt and uncles computer since that is where i am staying for the time being. i think this comp has some issues personally. However i can not understand how windows dosnt understand what type of file photoshop is and what to open it with. i did everything correct with winzip it extracted and opend a new folder for it however all i got was the same file that i told it to extract. im not trying to design somethig super crazy but we all have to start somewhere.