Photo Editing Help

[sammysam21]

I am trying to decide on a photo editing program. I have been searching this site & found mixed reviews on the programs that are out there. I was originally thinking about a photo shop program, but which one and are they any good? I was also thinking about the Paint Shop Pro program. It seems easy to use. Any suggestions would be great. I have just started researching these programs so I am pretty clueless. Thanks for the input.

[Linda1]

I have Adobe Photo shop CS3 and Zoom Browser. For simple cropping, and adjusting the exposure, I use the zoom browser. The Photo Shop is a little over kill for me. Also I would need to spend more time than I'm willing to give it to learn the program. But that is just me being lazy.
I used Paint Shop Pro several years ago and I didn't have too hard a time using it.

[EMA]

Corel Paint Shop pro is pretty awesome. I used it for things that I didn't want to take the time to do with Photoshop CS2/3. But now I'm on a Mac, so bye bye PaintShop Pro... :'(

Adobe has Photoshop Elements, which is more consumer level, and is VERY good.

It just depends what you want to do with it!

[imported_eastcoastmom]

I have Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Love it!