Originally posted by jatrax I actually admire folks that take the time to "get it right" and don't do any PP.
Even if you do get it right in camera, you will likely need some kind of editing software if you want to do something with the photo other than view it on your own monitor.
At minimum, you'll want to be able to resize your photos so that you can send them via email, or print them. Even if you manage to frame your subjects perfectly every time, you will probably
need to crop photos if only to change the aspect ratio.
You might want to use a photo browser that allows side by side comparison of photos so that you can choose which of a set of duplicates you want to keep and which you want to discard.
I have a minimalist approach to PP. I browse my photos using FastStone which is free and lightweight ( It will run on pretty much any computer ). It gives me everything I need to browse and
edit my photos just about 95% of the time. When I need to do more complex editing, or RAW processing, I invoke one of a suite of other programs I have at my disposal, depending on what it
is I want or need to do.
I would recommend the original poster start with a basic editor like FastStone. When you get to a point where you feel you want or need to do more sophisticated processing, then you can add other programs.