As you can see, it has all the essentials as well--white balance, exposure controls, color adjustments, and so on--though its features are arranged on a single screen. If you're used to Adobe's Camera Raw, however, you'll find a few things missing. Corel's RAW editor has no sharpening, cropping, or straightening tools, for example, so you'll need to open the photo in PaintShop Pro for those features. Camera RAW Lab is focused much more on basic exposure tweaks.

No matter which program you use, though, a RAW mini-editor can be a huge timesaver. If you shoot in RAW, these programs are more than just intermediate clicks to get your photo into a full-fledged editor. Check them out today.

This week's Hot Pic: "" by Todd Blaisdell, Johannesburg, Michigan

Todd says that he captured this photo using a single, long exposure--and some glowsticks.