Digital Image editing software...

[soleilbleu]

Hello,

I am new here. I do not want to start a whole new thread on this, so if there is one that exists that you could point me to, I would be happy to look for it. I am wanting to take my photography and digital image manipulation to a higher level. Looking for opinions on a good user friendly program to work on my photos. I am not completely novice, but need something that will be fairly easy to jump into, but with more powerful features than say "Picasa" (which is, I must say, quite an amazing little free program!)

Thank you in advance for your direction.

[frodron]

Hi,soleilbleu,
At the moment Corel have produced Paint Shop Pro X4 & some websites are selling the previous version Paint Shop Pro X3 at a marked down price of less than $20 (try Amazon or Ebay) which is a good deal.
I would suggest you look at the reviews of this software & if you like it find one of the sites that are selling X3.
My preference is Adobe Photoshop Elements but this expensive compared with Paint Shop Pro X3.

[soleilbleu]

Hi, and thanks! Now that you mention it, I believe I used to own a version of Paint Shop Pro when it was produced by Jasc. I will definitely check out that and Photo Elements.

[autolisp]

Why not take a look at GIMP. It's FREE and will probably do a lot of what you want. It will cost nothing to try it out!

autolisp (I cannot login since the rebuild)

[Hrc]

I would like to suggest Photoshop Elements. It is very powerful and not very difficult to learn. If you shop around you can find it for about $70 (say at COSTCO) and mine came with a small certificate for 100 free 4x6 inch photos.

Ciao.

Harry