User blog comment:Phyrrus362/Awesome Announcement!!!/@comment-2137149-20110227013959/@comment-3136874-20110227031908

I'm pretty sure you have to buy them. My dad installed all the Adobe and Windows programs I currently have so I don't know if he went and bought it or not.

But you could always just use MS paint and WMM. that's what Zazusha on YT (a.k.a. my inspiration for the tournament) did for most of his time as a sprite-fight maker.