I posted a picture of what the new Adobe Lightroom program can do.  It is soooooooooooo easy to use, I love it....  in the picture description, I tell a little bit about the program.  Its only about $190 or so...well worth it!!!

here is the link:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1410419

I got it for free because I purchaced RawShooter in the past. I'm also quite happy with the final product. Although I still think it's not as speedy as RawShooter.

I think the price goes up to $299 shortly. I am very happy with it also, tho wish it were a little bit faster. But that's what updates are for :)

I found that it completely remade my workflow and made everything so much easier to keep track of for me. Very nice.

-Melen

Vulcan, I have had the program for a while but was only able to install tonight..so a couple of pics into the software.  So far, it looks good.  My pc processor would not accept MS SP2 for XP and SP2 is needed for Lightroom and likely other newer software.  It always crashed my pc..so while remodeling at home, no place for the pc, a geek got the pc and all is fine and Lightroom is up and running.  I tried raw and it worked fine.  I tried a jpg and it did fine there, also...but I prefer so far to do fine adjustments in other software, using Lightroom for "exposure" and basic color adjustments on jpg.  Time will tell but so far I do like it. I have not explored the options beyond "develop" so far.

With a 30 day trial offer from Adobe, the software is certainly worth a tryout by anyone interested.   Thanks for the thread.      Tom.