What's the best foto editing for eBay pictures?

Hi
I take digital photos of eBay items I'm sellling, then transfer them into iPhoto v 5.04. I then immediately export them into my Picture folder using iPhoto's "Export Photo" "File Export" defaults: JPG, Full-size images, Use Filename, Use extension. I've not studied iPhoto 5 other than to use it fo download my pictures
I've been editing the pictures using an old Classic program I got used to called Adobe PhotoDeluxe. The program has plenty of features and gets me exactly what I want. This is not PhotoShop.
Is anyone familiar with this Adobe PhotoDeluxe? My question is: is iPhoto a full featured photo editor that will do everything. I particularly have in mind one feature of A
PD. I take a lot of pictures of posters. They never come out of the camera in a rectangular shape. They appear as trapezoids. Adobe Photo Deluxe has one feature that allows me to widen, say, the bottom side of a poster that is narrower than the top side.
Another thing I can do is fill in colors with great precision, easily working up to a boundry to another color that I don't want to over lap.
I can then easily turn the finished product into any size jpeg I wish to up load.
Does iPhoto 5.04 do these kinds of things? If it does I can just stay in iPhoto, and eliminate a step towards having an upload ready photograph.
I have a 100% eBay feedback rating with posters and maps averaging $300.00 apiece and I believe the quality of the pictures has helped me a lot with many successful sales. I get good results while not wasting a lot of time being overly fussy.
Does the community have any ideas or , opinions about my eBay photography needs and perhaps experience that iPhoto will do for my kind of work?
Thanks for any feedback.
Rafael

iPhoto is primarily an image organization program, not an image editing program like Adobe Photoshop and like programs.
The editing features you mention:
__Adjust canvas dimensions (the widening of the narrow parts of your pictures)
__Color fill (aka paint bucket...ahh I miss MacPaint)
Do not exist in iPhoto.
There are a variety of programs out there that offer the tools you refer to.
A few examples:
http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/News/News.html
http://www.lemkesoft.com/
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop

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