If your selling process involves a lot of photography, what picture editing software do you use?
I started with Paintshop Pro; I think I used version 3 and then upgraded to version 6. It was the only editor I've used that really met my needs. It wasn't super powerful but it did everything I needed: crop, adjust brightness and color balance, and touch up minor flaws in the background. It let me perform most operations without touching the mouse, and it could display any number of pictures at once, which was great for choosing among alternative shots of the same item.
When I migrated to Windows 7 my old PSP ceased to work. I bought a new version but found that it had turned into a Photoshop wannabe: huge, slow, incredibly powerful, and incredibly hard to learn.
I used GIMP for a while -- I figured that if I was going to be stuck with worthless software I should at least not have to pay for it. It was even more awkward and unintuitive than PSP. I'm now using Photoscape, another free program that's a lot easier to use, but matchlessly clumsy, with buttons and dropdowns all over the screen, and little or no keyboard control. And it can only open one picture at a time, which makes some of my work extremely inefficient.
If anyone can point me to an inexpensive editing program with intuitive operations, a reasonably standard Windows menu system, and the ability to open several pictures at once, I'll be eternally gratefull.
