Adobe or Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2

Software like Photoshop Elements from Adobe or Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2, which are slimmed-down versions of industrial strength programs, offer a wealth of options for editing photos. Users with a smaller budget can look to titles like Magix Digital Foto Maker or Ulead Photoimpact.
In many cases only a fraction of the potential of these programs actually sees use: "Most amateur photographs don't do a lot of photo editing," Luettgers says. Yet a "crazy improvement in quality can be achieved" by just fiddling with the tonal values, Klaus Vogel says. Whether the images need to be cropped or not depends largely on the eye of the photographer.