What's the best photo editing software for a hobby photographer?

GIMP. It's open source. It can do almost as much as what the commercial counterparts can do.It's free.

:).

Photoshop is the best and the easiest to use. But GIMP has pretty much all the matching features and it's free. Takes a bit more time to learn it though.

But there are plenty of tutorials online.

Sounds like you're already familiar with the major photo editing apps out there. I'm not a photographer, but from what I've heard Aperture and Photoshop Elements seem like they would fit your needs -- feature-rich for the price point, but not overkill. Both apps offer free 30-day trials, so I would download both of them and take them for a test run.

Don't put too much weight on what other people tell you -- try them for yourself and see what you like best. (Additional notes: Illustrator is a vector drawing app, not a photo editing tool, so you can rule that one out. Picasa is Google's answer to flickr -- it's a web-based photo sharing service; they may offer light editing tools, but it probably isn't quite what you're looking for.).

I do photography at college and am moving on to study it a uni, I would say a must is photoshop, the amount of things you can do on photoshop as absolutely amazing, I don't think you have to get the latest version of photoshop though, CS5 is the newest version, but even a few years old CS3 is very good, just CS5 has a few extra features. Then it depends on your budget, I would recommend either aperture, or lightroom, both of these are very similar in style, they can't do everything that photoshop can, but are alot more toned to the amateur market, very simple easy to use, but gets very good results. I would suggest before buying any programs to download the trials of each of the programs, then you can see which ones you prefer, hope this helps, links to free trials : lightroom - https://adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product..._lightroom" rel="nofollow">adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product... photoshop - https://adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product... Aperture (MAC ONLY sorry forgot to say) - apple.com/aperture/trial.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.