Adobe Lightroom 3 is probably the best available photo editing software out there so far as photographers are concerned, short on gimmicks but fast, intuitive and sparing with your computer resources it provides all the enthusiastic amateur or busy pro requires.
If you want to download your images, correct the tones and colours, make local adjustments and perhaps convert to black and white or tone your images Lightroom has all the tools you need plus a host of image cataloguing, viewing and resizing options all of which can normally be carried out in a fraction of the time you’d spend in Photoshop.
Unlike Photoshop and Elements Lightroom does not save the full file of an edited image but just the edit settings thereby reducing the amount of disk space required.
Amazon are currently offering Lightroom 3 (which will upgrade to 3.6 when you update free online) for an amazing £95.00. The educational version for students etc (check out the licence requirements before buying) is £40 from what I remember.
Lightroom 4 is on the way but don’t hesitate with this offer, 3.6 is truly the bees knees, I use it for my work and I’ve just bought another licence (you can use it on 2 machines) for Phototuition photography courses .
John's Photography Notes 