What software do you recommend to edit photos as a professional?

I'm not a professional but I'd like to buy a software to edit my wedding pics and I don't know what the best is. One that is not extremely heavy. Thanks

why buy ?

use Gimp free and profesional.

Without a doubt, Adobe Photoshop. This is the industry standard.

If you don't want something "heavy", Adobe also offers Photoshop Elements, which contains many of the same basic features as Photoshop, but simplifies it for more casual users.

Adobe recently released a free, online version of Photoshop called Photoshop Express. This might be worth checking out in your case, as well.

https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html

Photoshop Lightroom is good if the photos are in RAW format. If they are not, I would suggest Photoshop in general. Though it's a bit pricy and complicated and most of the time you can get the same effects from a program called Photoscape, just look it up on google. It's free.

ACDSee photo manager is a very good software!

and the Photoshop is a very complex software,youneed much time to learn how to use it! while ACDSee is more simple!

PIcasa is a free photo editing software made by google that works well for beginners. But if you really want to get into it you should invest in Adobe Photoshop CS3 or CS4

Photoshop CS3 is by far the best.

If you own a mac, and you are editing photography ONLY,

use lightroom.

Photoshop.

Photoshop and Adobe CS3

Photoshop is awesome. =)

I have the whole program.

adobe photoshop CS3

Photoshop is by far the choice of pros.

Cheers

If you can't afford photoshop, give GIMP a try. It's free, and has lots of options and addons, just not as user friendly

Photoshop of course!

adobe photoshop pro

photoshop or fireworks

Try Gimpshop. It's a free alternative to Photoshop.

http://www.osalt.com/gimpshop

Adobe Photoshop CS3.

GIMP (Free)

Jasc Paint Shop Pro