Two Types of software

Photoshop:
photoshop is one of the most well known photo editing programs on the market for computers. It has the ability to remove backgrounds or delete parts of the picture and join two pictures together. It can be used to make pictures seem professional or real so it is a useful program for those who design magazine covers or create posters for advertisement etc but that doesn't mean you have to be an artist to use it.
Let me take you through a simple task of joining 2 picture together, these are the pictures I used:

Now if you add your pictures to the one file you will notice that you can only add effects to the one image, the reason is it only allows you to manipulate one image at a time if you want to manipulate the other image select the image under the "Layers" at the bottom right of the screen. I deleted most of the picture of the 2nd picture, made it slightly transparent and put it on top of the first picture but you are allowed to do extra editing if you want like.

There are very few limitations to to photoshop but some of the few limitations are that it very expensive to buy photoshop (£368) and to new users it may be difficult to understand because it only allows one picture to be edited at a time.

Paint:

Paint unlike photoshop is free and usually comes with any windows computer. Its software is also very easy to use and it can be easily understood by new users (unlike photoshop). It has many of the same functions that photoshop has like rotate, resize and crop. It also has quite good tools for drawing with making it easy to be creative and also comes with various of shapes which can be used to help be creative.

Although there are also limitations to paint to, unlike photoshop it does not have as many tools to manipulate pictures with and pictures are very difficult to be joined together on paint.

So now that we have looked at an overview of the products you may wonder which one are you better with having for photo manipulation, well the answer will depend on why do you need software to manipulate photos. if you need software for combining more than one photo together photoshop is probley your best choice but if you need something to show a more creative side then maybe you would be better of using paint.