Creating Arrows Easily for Images

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I'm looking for a plugin or something along those lines for creating arrows for an image I'm working on. Basically it's just a screenshot of some software, but I want to annotate it and have arrows on it pointing to the various components.

It should look something like this or even something simpler.

The problem is that there doesn't seem to be an easy, free way of creating good arrows for any of the screenshots, short of importing actual images of arrows!

I prefer to use:

GIMP
Paint.NET
Other free software (beer or freedom, whichever)

What are my alternatives? I really want to stay away from Photoshop on this. Thanks.

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