IBM Perfect Photo

Rating:
Summary: Best freebie editor you will ever obtain
Review: IBM Pefect Phot, a giveaway on magazines from time to time, but one of the best photo editors you will come across at anywhere near a budget price. Packed with features, it will take you a while to find your way around as it's not very intuitive, but it does have manmy interesting effects, lots of enhancements, some automatic, some tweakable, and is altogether much much more than your average entry level editor.
What a pity it's not so readily available now, but if you see it on a magazine as a free giveaway, don't hesitate, grab it while you can, you won't regret it!

Rating:
Summary: Complex features - complex operation
Review: This program has lots of valuable picture manipulation feates, approaching even high end photo editing suites. However, everything is hidden behind a non-standard interface, and the hard or soft copy manual is not worth talking about. Of the many picture editing programs that I have explored, this comes closest to incorporating all those features that one needs when trying to do semi-professional work with photos. I found only one minor bug and this is a good value for the money.