New to apple: what to use for image editing?

I am new to apple and I just bought an ibook g4 with ilife05 on it, and i would lkike to know what software that is presumable already installed on this ibook in which to do image editing. I dont want photo management (iphoto), but image modification.
on a pc this would be such programs as ms paint.
thanks
mike

The last big improvement to iPhoto was to give it beefier editing capabilities. If you are running 10.3/iPhoto5, click on the button in the lower panel that looks like ">>" This brings up adjustment featues. Also, if you have Appleworks, there is a paint program in there. If you have 10.4/iPhoto6, again adjustment buttons are at the bottom of the screen, with better labeling.
The next step up is Photoshop Elements. You might be able to find PSE3.0 for cheap, as intel Mac people are waiting for the universal build of this softo.

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