Price aside (nearly $300 for Photoshop for the academic license) Photoshop is sometimes overkill for most of basic photo editing needs. Enter online photo editing sites. There are a lot of them, but CNET has assembled a concise, tabular run-down of 15 popular services. Most of the featured services are free. As with any technology, it depends what you want to do, but there is certainly an online photo editor that will do the trick if you don't have Photoshop or if you're on-the-go and can't get to a computer that does.