First up, I'm a devoted Photoshop7 fan, so this query isn't for me. It's for my 75yr/old dad who just got a new Dell with Vista. Sadly, while Vista will run his alltime favorite photo editor (Sierra's Snapshot Express), the computer simply HATES doing so! 

So, before I go a-googlin' the net, I figured maybe some of youse guys in here might have some good ideas of what to check out. Basically, what my dad needs is a Vista compatible photo editor that offers photo album collections with SIMPLE editing features, none of the fancy layering/plugin/filter stuff. Remember, he's 75 and he "aint too keen on the idea of learning a bunch of artsy-fartsy stuff just to clean up some digital camera pictures". He actually said that!
Seriously, when I showed him Photoshop, the layering system nearly blew the poor guys mind. And you really don't wanna know what he said when I told him how much I paid for it!

Again, something simple and preferrably free. He just spent $1500 on this new machine and really doesn't want to spend any more $$$ on it if he can help it.

Big thanks ahead of time for any advice here!

Later
C

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AMD FX-9590 4.7ghz 8-core, 32gb of RAM, Win7 64bit, nVidia GeForce GTX 760

PoserPro2012, Photoshop CS4 and Magix Music Maker

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