You might get some replies to your question if you provide a little more information. In this case it would help to know how much pic editing power you need. Do you run a digital photo studio that offers digital restoration of old or damaged photographs? Do you just want to take the red-eye out of some pics taken at the last office party? Do you need to create graphics or output images for the web? For print?

Thank you... I had not thought of these options.

I edit clothing pics to bring the colors in line, remove the beige or pale blue background that appears on photos taken on a white background and publish to our site.

I would like to also do some simple logos, banner texts and thumbnails with text.

And lastly I would like to be able to add those nice gentle shadows to pics (the ones that make the pics on a web page seem somewhat elevated from the page... so they dont seem so flat.

I hope this helps...

Thanks again.
ARC

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