Best free photoshop-like program?

Hi, I need to produce slides for a slideshow that will fill the 1024x768 screen resolution of a set of older G4 Macs (eMac, iMac flat-panel). What is the best freeware application to do this? I need to be able to save the slides as .jpeg’s.
I’ve tried wrestling with some of the programs that came installed on this Macbook, like Pages and that doesn’t really do the job. When I had my old Mac I would use Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 or Graphic Converter (for tracing the edges of an image in order to remove the background).
Any ideas? I’ve gone to the App Store but there are so many I don’t know where to start when I’ve got a limited time to do this.
Many thanks.

Does it have to be free? Photoshop Elements and Graphics Converter are both still around. Graphics Converter can even be tried out for free ("with few restrictions* and at your leisure until you decide to purchase").
If it has to be free, I understand that some users like Gimp.

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