Image Editing Software and Resources

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Corel Painter 8
If your talents lean toward the artistic, Corel Painter is a must-have tool for maximum creative expression in a digital environment. With textured surfaces, brushes, and tools, you can mimic painting and drawing with chalk, pastels, watercolors, oils, crayons, pencil, felt pens, ink, and so much more.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0
Overview and summary of Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe's mid-range photo-editing software for amateur photographers, hobbyists, and small business users.

Ulead PhotoImpact XL
PhotoImpact offers a suite of tools for Web graphics creation, image editing, photo correction and enhancement, plus plenty of extras for special effects and creative exploration. In fact, I consider it the best value photo editor for Windows.

Microsoft Digital Image Suite 9 and Digital Image Pro 9
Microsoft's Digital Image Suite 9 and Digital Image Pro 9 are best suited to users who want simplified tools for image enhancement as well as a nice variety of professional-looking designs which can be personalized and produced without a lot of fuss.