Over the years, JASC and now Corel, have developed a really great piece of software called Paint Shop Pro. If you've spent any amount of time around the learning groups for this program you will hear it referred to as PSP, or PSP'ing. The current version for this program from Corel is version 11 but many people have been using ing it for many years. My first exposure to the program was version 6 and all of the versions since have help some really neat enhancements.
The main competition for this software is Adobe's Photoshop. Having tried both programs, and while I think in the end that Photo Shop has some more advanced features for the professional photographer, don't under estimate the power of Paint Shop Pro. It is is capable of doing most anything you would ever want to do with your "post picture taking" time as any program out there and comes at a cost about a fifth of the price of Photo Shop. Both programs are excellent though and will serve all your digital photography and other digital picture needs.
Personally I found that the learning curve was easier with PSP than it was with PS but again, that could just be me and the way I comprehend how to use the programs. There are oodles of groups out there for learning how to use the programs and I have even written some basic tutorials on using PSP as well which can be found HERE . There are tons of plugins and filters available for both programs which further enhance their usefulness. If you have a digital camera, you need one of these programs to make the best use of them.
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