There a number of small picture manipulation tasks that don’t need huge great applications such as PhotoShop or PaintShopPro such as quickly creating DVDs of your photos, looking at RAW or JPEG information. There are a lot of smaller apps on the net that provide these sort of features for a small license fee, and a few that are actually free.  Finding the free ones can be a pain, but someone has set up a neat little site – Photo-Freeware.net – Image Editing Freeware Download Source with links to the free applications and related useful information.