Originally Posted by HKYStormFront

of note: if you are just going to use this software to process pictures, lightroom 3 is a great resource. it's not quite the heavy lifter that CS5 is but for 99.9% of most people, especially ones just getting into photography it's more than enough for a lot less than a copy of photoshop. bear in mind photoshop started life as a graphic design app that slowly incorporated more and more photo editing tools. lightroom was built from the ground up to only handle photos and is in some ways more efficient because of it