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Have a read of KmH's point - the subscription for Adobe software isn't aimed at someone who wants to long term use their software, its more targeted at companies and people who need the software, but only for a specific short term project or purpose. For them the short term fee is very acceptable - for longer term use and upgrades you'll pay more for the privilege.
Lightroom is a very good software option, the 4th version adds quite a bit and makes it a very versatile photographers package for file management and RAW processing. Many people I know use lightroom to do most of the editing, indeed unless you go for using the liquefy tool and such often you'll likely use Lightroom to do most of your processing - supported with photoshop/elements for those shots where you need to go more advanced.
You can get a 30 day trial of Lightroom off the Adobe website so you can try it out and if you like it just pay to get an activation code.
Lightroom is a very good software option, the 4th version adds quite a bit and makes it a very versatile photographers package for file management and RAW processing. Many people I know use lightroom to do most of the editing, indeed unless you go for using the liquefy tool and such often you'll likely use Lightroom to do most of your processing - supported with photoshop/elements for those shots where you need to go more advanced.
You can get a 30 day trial of Lightroom off the Adobe website so you can try it out and if you like it just pay to get an activation code.