Photograph manipulation software
 

Would anybody be able to recommend some in expensive Photograph manipulation software?

Picasa2 from Google is quite handy and it is free too. You can do quite a bit with pics using that.

You can often find PaintShop Pro on magazine cover discs.

Gimp is worth a look.

For cataloguing, it's Picasa2. Free, and excellent.

For editing, if you're paying, there are several to choose from.

If you're a cheapskate like me, of the freebies The Gimp has to be the one - but there is a learning curve!

It looks like it is going to be gimp then.Thank you all for your help.

Picasa is good for basic editing, such as cropping and resizing, tuning of colours etc - the basic stuff you need to get your photos to the printer. You need only get the Gimp if you need to do real photo manipulation, editing, weird effects etc.

Can anyone comment which photo software can edit jpeg images but keep them at max quality/resolution?

In most free bits of sw (canon zoom browser, epson photo thingy etc) if you take a jpeg image, make a slight adjustment to say brightness and then save it, the file size reduces significantly. Its as though the compression algorithm is having another go.

Its irritating if you want to preserve the highest resolution of the original piccie. Some say that the only way is to take the photo in raw format, but my £200 Canon sureshot can't do that.