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If he's picking up Photoshop to shop around for a job in the industry, there's really no substitute. It is the most ubiquitous piece of software, and he'll be expected to have some facility with it.
Then again, he won't get that sort of facility buying an old copy of PS 7 anyway. He should really pick up at least CS2.
If he's just needing to do graphics editing himself, The GIMP becomes much more of an option. There are just no substitutes (as far as I know -- someone here may know better) for certain things in Photoshop like the Push tool and some of the more esoteric warping stuff, but The GIMP is a powerful graphics tool in its own right, and can do just about everything you'll need in a graphics program, IMHO.