What program is the best out there that you can recomend for photo's?
Well Adobe PhotoShop is the Industry standard and IMNSHO it is the Cat's Ass of Photo Editing tools. However, $700 bucks or so is pretty steep just for personal use, so I would recommend Photoshop Elements. It has about 80% of Photoshops cool Fun features without all the professional crap you may not need for casual/hobby use. It is basically all you would need to do just about everything you could want to a photo for $99. It also allows you to use a lot of the add ons and stuff that are out there. Check it out here.
Adobe Elements
One other thought, and this goes for everyone interested in decent FREE photo alteration and cataloging tools... not to mention all sorts of other good freeware. Go to
WebAttack for all sorts of freeware/shareware programs. Just select "FREEWARE" then look under "GRAPHIC TOOLS" There are a few good tools in there for cataloging and sorting all of your digital images as well as a crap load of assorted good freeware... I recommend "IrfanView" under image viewers. It's free and has some nice features...
But for a real good no BS do it all photo editing program I recommend Adobe Elements.
Another option though one I do not really recommend it because I feel that everything made by Corel Corp. has been personally designed by SATAN is Corel Photopaint. It does damn near eveything you could ever want and comes with a whole lot of built in effects and filters that could be fun.
Rev.