What photo software should I get?

[cross56]

Hi all, i'm fairly new the editing photos, i'd like to buy some fairly easy stuff to do this with. My choices that i'm looking at right now are Photoshop Elements 5.0, Microsoft Digital Media Suite, and Paint Shop Pro X. In your opinions which software should I get for minor editing photos. And please give a resaon or personal experience.

 

[Joves]

I use Photshop CS2 myself. I use it because, it is what I learned on.Paintshop is supposed to be fairly good. What are you doing post processing from your camera or, photomanipulation? If it is post processing then there are free programs that someone might know of.

 

[thunderstruck!]

For post processing, PSE5 is good. It has about 90% of the features of CS2 for what you need, and there are plently of tuts if you need help getting started.

 

[matt fury]

Try the free beta of Adobe Lightroom.

 

[digital_exhaust]

You could try Gimp, it's free and you can can find alot of tutorials out there. Just a thought.

 

[darktiger]

I use CS2. If you are in school you can get CS2 real cheap...