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Light room. Plenty of places to get it and it doesn't need cracking like photoshop as it never checks the code.
Adobe are doing a monthly payment system now so you get the software upgrades.
I've just downloaded the new photoshop and it is a lot further from photoshop 7 which I used a hell of a lot a long time back. It will take me a while to get used to it.
Some people use GIMP but I just couldn't get used to it after trying it last week. Plus the new version has a weird way of saving files. Doesn't save a JPEG which is a pain in the arse. It's certainly no adobe but it is free.
I've just started playing with LR, it's decent enough. It's a very simple tool editing wise, or certainly from what I can see. Try not to think of it as a replacement for PS, as it isn't really.
Lightroom is the best for light tweaking. It's better than photoshop for tweaking photos with things such as spot exposure/white balance/noise reduction etc that would be lengthy tasks in photoshop. Photoshop is more for completely changing an image or making things with more than one image such as HDR.