Adobe Photoshop Elements 9

Like its bigger and far more expensive brother, Photoshop Elements 9.0 appears slick and professional. From the start, everything is made as simple as possible. The software is divided into two self-explanatory modules: Organize and Edit. The organiser keeps track of your entire photo collection and lets you rate, tag and search your collection in a variety of ways, including by face, date and location. It also lets you perform basic enhancements, with tools for a one-click Smart Fix, automatic colour and contrast adjustments, red-eye removal and cropping. These can be applied to batches of images simultaneously. The software is also clever enough to keep track of multiple versions of each picture.