What tools are there to slice a PSD?

I regularly slice web designs provided in PSD format. As a site-builder, I don't need to create graphics—I only rearrange the layers, hide ones and show others, pick colors, widths, heights, and so on. What tools are there to do that job?

I know Adobe Photoshop, but it's a very expensive tool for a site-builder who doesn't want to draw and have the many fancy features, but open the PSD dependably (GIMP mostly fails at this point unfortunately), and slice it to build the website template. There are lots of image viewers can open PSD files, I know, but those application are not what I'm looking for—I haven't found one allows me to deal with layers.

From stackoverflow

• There is Paint.NET which is getting better over time. You can open PSD files with a plug-in.

  Plugin: http://customblogging.blogspot.com/2007/06/open-psd-files-withpaint-net.html

  Paint.NET http://www.getpaint.net/

  Török Gábor : My main problem with the PSD plugins is that I never can be totally sure that I see it in the "pixel-exact" same way as the designer intended it.

• Adobe Imageready used to come with Photoshop for slicing. That was replaced with Fireworks

  Adobe has free trials of all their products ;)

  Calvin : Don't know why this was marked down. It's true: http://www.adobe.com/downloads/ And Fireworks/ImageReady _were_ designed for slicing images and light-weight editing.

  Török Gábor : Thanks, it seems the reasonable choice in an available price. It has some convenient addons in a webdesign context.

• I think the more affordable Fireworks can also work, in my experience however the only reliable way to open the PSD as the designer intended was using photoshop. Using other programs caused minor differences.

• Try looking at Photoshop Elements. http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/

  furtelwart : Is it able to do this job?

  Calvin : Photoshop Elements is the consumer-grade version of Photoshop. It's basically a simpler, less-featured version of Photoshop (like a Photoshop Lite).

  Daniel A. White : It should be able to open psds. It used to.

  Török Gábor : I gave it a try, and it opened the PSDs smoothly. It is much cheaper than Fireworks, but its audience rather the people looking for a smart photo editing tool.

• Have a look at Paint Shop Pro (http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1184951547051) - it handles PSDs quite well from what I remember and it's competitvely priced at arounf $80