My top picks for advanced photo editing software

Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo

• PaintShop Photo Pro X3 lets you manage, adjust, edit and share your digital photos all in one place
• Organize, rate, tag and sort with photo management tools
• Manually adjust groups of RAW photos with RAW Lab
• Quickly fix common photo flaws with Express Lab
• Email photos, print online or at home, and send directly to Facebook, YouTube and Flickr
  

Adobe Photoshop CS5

• Breakthrough capabilities for superior image selections, image retouching, and realistic painting; and a wide range of enhancements.
• Create and refine images using state-of-the-art photography tools that deliver superior results
• New creative possibilities that enable you to select, adjust, paint.
• Accelerate work flow with fast performance on 64-bit hardware systems, smoother interactions thanks to GPU acceleration.
• Access assets in the context of what you’re working on by using the customizable Adobe Mini Bridge panel in Photoshop.
• Easily manage media with flexible batch renaming.
  

Adobe Illustrator CS5

• Used by design professionals worldwide,
• Adobe Illustrator CS5 software provides precision and power with sophisticated drawing tools, expressive natural brushes,
• A host of time-savers, and integration with Adobe CS Live.
• Take advantage of exceptional precision and power to create distinctive vector artwork.
• Combine highly controllable drawing tools with expressive natural brushes and dramatic effects to make unique, striking designs.
• .. And character styles, paragraph composition, underlining and strikethroughs, transparent effects, and more.
• Incorporate vector artwork into essentially any project and deliver resolution-independent graphics across media.