Photography ideas, camera & image editing

Portrait Professional is an image editing software than runs on Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 2000. It is designed to edit and improve the image quality of portraits.
After downloading the trial version, I set off to play with the program. Unfortunately, the software hangs the moment I tried to open a jpeg image file.

Paint.Net is a fairly new player in the freeware image editor scene.
Unlike GIMP and Photoshop, it is available only on the Windows platform. This is because it needs .NET framework in order to run. This .NET framework is similar in concept to Java Virtual Machine.
Paint.NET is designed to be intuitive and easy to understand. […]