Originally Posted by The Fixer
As for cropping and re-sizing, among other things, the only image processing software I use is Photofiltre, a free download software.
Got a new one for you that's free and blows all the rest away:
"GIMP"
No, really.
Stands for "GNU Image Manipulation Program" - totaly open source, available for multiple platforms...
comparable to Photoshop!
Info here:
http://www.gimp.org/
And the Windows download here:
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/
Highly recommended.