Photoshop Express is currently in beta form and is free. I hope it stays free because it looks excellent. I can’t access it at the moment because it is only for USA residents, but here is what it says it offers:
You can use tools to crop, straighten, fix white balance and exposure, highlight, alter shadow [...]

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Using Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 again, here is how you can automatically adjust the skin tone of a person in a photo. This photo is of me taken with flash after a 40 degree day and after finally getting into the air conditioned Rod Laver Arena at the Australian Open tennis at a night [...]

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I downloaded a 30 day trial of the TNT screen capture utility. It is great! Much better than anything else out there for free.
Here’s what it can do
· Capture anything and everything
· Editing tools and graphical object
· XP screenshots with rounded corners
· Smooth [...]

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If you only want to edit photos, Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 is probably your best bet. It is much cheaper than Photoshop and has almost as many features, if not a few more to do with photos, albums, printing, collages etc.
I bought a magazine the other day called ” Photoshop Elements Essentials” and it had [...]

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You can use many graphic programs to alter the brightness or darkness of a photo, but usually only using an auto feature. You can get some quite interesting effects if you use Curves in Photo shop. Once again, I’m using Photo shop 7.

That’s too dark a picture, so:
1. Go to Layer>New adjustment layer>Curves
2. Click group [...]

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