Fred,
There is a program called Photoshop Elements that is a mini version of Photoshop. That works well too. I am still learning that. Actually if you have 35 mm slides, those can be made into .jpg files with a scanner or at a good photo processor. They can then be burned to cd or dvd for viewing. I just took my slides in to be developed (I still shoot slide with a 35mm camera some of the time - better color among creative issues) and had them burn a cd for me of the images.