User Friendly Image Editing Program?

OK, I have searched everywhere I can think of for a simple photo and image editing program. All I want to do is manually crop images into irregular shapes and make one image transparent over another, and not have it look spliced together when I get done. I have been using Appleworks draw, but these are two things it lacks. I have downloaded and tried dozens of applications, everything from Adobe trial version to freeware programs and none of it does any good. The complicated expensive applications make you spend two hours figuring out how to rescale an image and the cheap ones can't even do basic overlays. Is there some kind of image editing program out there that can do these things, but has a simple interface like IMovie or IPhoto?
IMac duo-core 1.83ghz intel Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I use Photoshop Elements v2 with Tiger. Since it's old, you should be able to get a copy for $10-$20.
 Cheers, Tom

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