What shall I use for web graphics editing?

Hi,

Adobe photoshop is great but it'll set you back some 500 to 600 bucks.

You can also try GIMP at www.gimp.org, the best thing about it is it's free.

Don't know what adobe's plan is with fireworks but it is good as well. Apple makes some pretty good software but is a little expensive.

There were some posts about this before.... I think most people here and most (professional) graphic designers are using Adobe Photoshop. I personally use Macromedia Fireworks (which is pretty equivalent) and since Macromedia is now a subsidiary of Adobe it's all from the same company.
Then there is also Corel Draw/Photo Paint which has a similar functionality.

Since these software (I learned that the plural of software is software too, not softwares ) are relatively expensive (look at the companies' websites or on ebay) there are also some good open source graphic editors but I can't tell you much about these. You might wanna do a search here on the forums or on Google.