What's the best photo editing software for a hobby photographer?
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It's open source. It can do almost as much as what the commercial counterparts can do. It's free. :)
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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.)
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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://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=photoshop_lightroom
photoshop - https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=photoshop
Aperture (MAC ONLY sorry forgot to say) - http://www.apple.com/aperture/trial/
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