I have had print shop since '98 and I think it's time to upgrade so that I can do more things with editing. I need tools that allow me to remove objects from the background of my cakes, crop, adjust colors and brightness, ect. What do you guys use and thik is the best?

www.photofiltre.com It's free and it works wonders!!! Good Luck

Photoshop, but then I've been using it since before it was called Photoshop.

Photoshop. Handsdown. nothing comes remotely close to it.

Ditto on photoshop.........................way too involved for a novice not interested in diving into that "subculture". I'd suggest a smaller program...........lot's of smaller fun ones out there. Photofiltre...or fotofiltre....or fotofilter....something like this ~ is a fee download that is good. Many printers and scanners come with great little photo program teasers that are great! iPhoto Plus is a good one... OH DUH....briansbaker already said the photofilter one.... LOL~~~~ still can't spell it right!!!

I have Photoshop, but my "go-to" software is Paint Shop Pro. WAAAAAY cheaper and almost as fully-featured. Plus, all Photoshop filters work with it.

You can get Photoshop Elements which is basically a "lite" version of Photoshop for a lot less $$... though I have to vote for Photoshop too!

Photoshop CS2, absolutely the best. Downside to it is that it has a major learning curve and is way expensive. There are several freebies available and cheaper (and easier) programs that can do what you are wanting.
Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro, etc.
Pick something that is within a budget and easy to learn and you'll be plenty happy.

i LOVE photoshop. But Photoshop Elements is all i have right now. I have PSP to ,but i think its a litle to complicated for me. I can;t figure out how to do layers.

Correl Painter is awsome to!

If you rlooking for something free and is similar to photoshop i suggest Gimp. You can download it off of download.com just put "gimp" in the search box.

Yep You guessed it..another vote for photoshop.
I did computer graphics and that's what the school used.

Another vote for Photoshop. Photoshop Elements offers everything that most users would want. As mentioned on another post, one of the benefits of photoshop is that there are a LOT of resources dedicated to learning how to use the program.