Andrea Joki is without a doubt the best child portrait photographer I’ve ever seen. She is located in Helsinki Finland, so you may have a way to travel to meet with her.  She does take occasional assignments in the United States and Australia.Read More...

The Guide To Art Schools has published a list of free photo editing software at The 11 Best Free Photo Editing Programs.  The list includes:

1. Gimp
2. Photoscape
3. Paint.NET
4. ArtWeaver
5. Serif PhotoPlus SE
6. Pixia
7. VC VicMan's Photo Editor
8. Ultimate Paint
9. Magix Xtreme Photo Designer 6
10. PhotoFiltre
11. Lightbox Image Editor

The Web list includes:

1. Picnik
2. SplashUp
3. FlauntR
4. Adobe Photoshop Express
5. Sumo Paint

via Keith Cushner.

They left off one of my favorite desktop photo editing tools, Picassa.