Hey Baxter... Another option is a program that I use called "Paint Shop Pro 9"
It is a photo editing program that is similar to Photoshop, but not as much money... like $200.00 U.S. compared to $900.00 or so for Photoshop. Thing is... if you need a photo editing program for "professional" use... use Photoshop. If you just want to edit pics for yourself and do things with them like color correction, red eye correction, crop, resize, use various filters, edit textures... etc, etc. On and on... almost as much as you can do with Photoshop, then Paint Shop Pro would be good enough. Below are 2 pics... one that was just cropped and the second is the same pic that I just played with a bit.
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