Photoshop?

SanDiegoLady,

If the professional Adobe Photoshop CS2 is too expensive, consider the newly revamped Corel Paint Shop Pro X, which retails for under $100. You may also consider Photoshop Elements, which is essentially a scaled down version of the aforementioned, aimed particularly at folks interested in doing photo editing. These are not only much cheaper, but also considerably easier to learn.

There are also free tools such as IrfanView, The Gimp and Picasa, but these provide somewhat less flexibility in my view. Still, for a total of ZERO dollars, they might be worth a try. :)

Hope this helps.

ETA: here are some useful links and reviews:
PC World - Do More With Digital Photos
Top 10 Reviews - Photo Editing Software
PCMag - Photo Software and Services

Thanks Stermag I was wondering if anyone was going to post! lol I appreciate your help very much.

You can try Version Tracker''s website...the website often will allow you to download software for free or to test...

www.versiontracker.com

Used Corel for quite a while and like it allot. Never needed to move on to more sophisticated stuff. From the entire package, Corel PhotoPaint gets the most use.