http://www.picasa2.com/
This is simply a great photo editor I use a lot. It is a free download from Google and a few years ago this same softwear cost well over $100. It is also the doorway into the Picasa Web Albums. A lot like Photobucket.. but offers a lot more privacy settings and better quality in your photos viewing.
If you are looking for an editor with super light, color, and contrast editing this is it! It has a lot of other features such as converting a slideshow into html code for your webpage .. but they do not host it for you.. you can make a slideshow movie with mp3 music from your computer and upload it to the web album site and they will give you the html codes to post it on your blog.
You have to be careful as with any freedownloads.. they will try to hook the google toolbar, google earth.etc. onto the download and make Picasa your default photo editor.. you just have to be diligent and when they try to connect to the net block them.. or if they want to put the program as a startup item.. block it.. or it will start and slow your machine down by monitoring your picture downloads and what ever else they sneak into it.. but if your careful.. you can get only the editor and be glad you did.
