With an emphasis on image quality and ease-of-use, LightBox is great for beginners and experienced users alike.  Interactive help is available that leads the user through the process of learning how to make their photographs look great.

See Your Photos turn to PhotoToys, 3D Screensavers and Wallpaper Collages

Bring your digital photos to life with Photo Story 3 for Windows and experience your photos in amazing new ways.

GIMP is an Image Manipulation Program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.It has many  lities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

SmillaEnlarger enables enlarging/magnifying bitmap images in high quality. Based on original algorithms, this standalone software uses a number of filters that are designed to remove some of the typical artifacts generated by the enlarging process and “fill in” image information to achieve a much higher quality image than image enlargement algorithms typically employed in most applications.

Sure, there are loads of free screen capture tools, but this is not another cheesy, spreadsheet-looking one. This one offers directness, ease of use, and does it with style.