Beware of photoshop and it's ilk, it's great for doing basic lightroom stuff (the light equivalent of the traditional dakroom), or creating works from scratch, but I've seen so many photos ruined by judicious filters and bad colour management. I think a lightroom is far less bad chemicals, and far less workspace, so it works for me, being a control freak and having a 5x3 ft area available to work in!

Regarding priners, an A3 photo printer isn't too expensive, or do what I sometimes do and find a lab with a Fuji Frontier printer, which will give you 'traditional' prints from your own CDR. I'm in the business of producing fine art prints, and as such am incredibly picky, but the Fuji lab do a 90% faithful job on images, which is more than good enough for non-limited editions.

Hope this helps

morfegeek :-)