Also photoshop is not cheap, I use photoshop elements, when I need to. I think it was around 80.00 or so, but I bought it off amazon for I think like 39.00. For most of my editing, I use Adobe Lightroom, I think I paid about 120.00 for Lightroom. Lightroom does take a little getting use to. Working with catalogs and all that. If you buy it here http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc..._Software.html right now, you get a pretty good DVD, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Crash Course. It will help you get started. I have found I can do pretty much all I need to in Lightroom. But it is nice to have some type of photoshop program.. Elements has most of the features photoshop does, but I think photoshop is around 599.00 or so. Both programs are from Adobe.