I like sending people greeting cards with every special occasion.But most of all I like sending e-cards, that is I take a digital photo of me and my family and edit it to match to my idea of a greeting card , then add the message and finally send it on the email. This way I can keep contact with all the people that are important to me and send them recent pictures of all the members of my family in case they missed some important events like my little son's first tooth and so on. But you can only imagine how hard it is to try to keep two small children still, smiling at the camera.

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Of course we spend about two hours trying to get a good picture with everybody in it, with all the eyes staring at the camera and all the members of the family more or less clean and looking happy. Usually I have to browse through at least twenty photos in order to find one that fits my standards. Well, not any more. That is because I have discovered recently how easy and convenient it is to work with some digital photo software and get the best possible effect from a photo that looked compromised in the beginning and, after I have edited it, looked simply marvelous.

Here is a top with the best digital photo software available, according to the number of sales:
1. Adobe Photoshop Elements 2. Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo 3. Serif PhotoPlus 4. Ulead PhotoImpact 5. ACDSee Photo Editor 6. Roxio PhotoShow 7. FotoFinish Suite 8. Photo Explosion 9. Photo Impression 10. PhotoStudio

Like I mentioned before Adobe Photoshop seems to be the best rated digital photo software so far , so let's take a look at some of its most important features that you need in editing digital photos. Usually photo editing software applications are pretty complex and require a lot of knowledge and training to master all the features perfectly and the wide variety of features is exactly what makes it so complex and difficult to use. But not this time.

Adobe Photoshop has a very user friendly interface with very handy and easy to find tools, keeping the beginner informed with what they can do thanks to a very useful and visible tutorial that explains every step of the way what you have to do and what tools to use. You will be showed and explained the steps you have to make in order to apply edits, share finished projects or the way in which you can use your photos to create personalized post cards , calendars and photo books.

The most important purpose of this software application is to edit digital photos. You can find a very complex set of tools for both basic and more refined photo editing. As basic instruments I would like to mention red- eye removing, cropping, resizing, minor cleanup and cloning. All these are included in Quick fix tool area. Then you can also adjust colour and lighting and have the possibility to have a final preview before printing or sending the photo away from the editing desk.

Then you can apply a high fine filter for a more refined editing. A new tool here is Photomerge exposure, that allows you to borrow more prominent features from other photos and clip them and then glue them to the original photo, so that you can get a more defined aspect of certain features of your face. Another remarkable tool here is the Auto analyzer that is able to identify people on their appearance particularities. These are other more features are available in this amazing software application.