The full blown version of Photoshop is overkill unless you make your living with it or have money to burn. Photoshop Elements, which is much le$$ expen$ive will do 98% of what you'll ever need. The diff in prices is 'cause one is an upgrade and the other a full ver. The software is the same, the installer is different. The installer on the upgrade looks for a previous version.
Corel Photopaint (that's what it used to be called) is a very good image editor in it's own right, so is Paint Shop Pro. Photopaint is part of the Corel Graphics Suite (CorelDraw is the primary app). I use CorelDraw V11 a lot for layout of trade show posters and publicity material, it's my fav vector graphics app and I've been using it since V3.0. I never did like Adobe Illustrator.
If you're averse to spending money, give GIMP a try. I believe Will posted a link to the latest version in another thread. I've only played around with GIMP a little bit, but it looked pretty good. I have NO idea how color management works with it, but I'm sure that there is a discussion board on GIMP somewhere.
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