This is one of the best, and free photo editing pieces of software that any self-respecting digital photographer will need; amateur, or pro.

Photoscape is the fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos. It is just two years old, and ever growing program that provides a complete, free photo editing suite.

It includes a number of features like image browsing/viewing, photo editing and batch editing, picture page printing, splitter, screen capture, color picker, rename, photo resizing and renaming, frames, balloons, text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal, blooming, GIF animations, EXIF display, slideshow, and even RAW conversion into JPG, so that they’re more useful.  Whew, that’s a lot for one breath!

The photo editor includes standard editing features, as well as, automatic and custom adjustment options for brightness, contrast, exposure, backlighting corrections, and a variety of image effect filters and a collection of image frames and masks that can be applied to enhance the presentation of your photos.  Plus, there’s are other innovative tools, like combining multiple photos in a single frame.

Don’t let the price fool you. Even though this program is free, by the way, the creator will take donations, via Paypal, it is one of the best, and I assure you, it is easy to use, and it will fulfill the vast majority of your photo editing needs.

PhotoScape