Hi Beth,

I have met several people lately that don't understand how CC works, the monthly cost for the photographer package is 9.99 for BOTH Photoshop CC and Lightroom Classic along with the Mobile version of LR, if you want to use it with a tablet. The full professional version (1000.00) of CC is mostly for professional photographers and graphic design users. There are many new features within both apps that might make the new versions worth the money. You can start in LR and then make more edits in CC and come back to LR very easily. I know we hate the idea of paying for a subscription app but unfortunately it seems that most software company's are all changing over to that platform. Photoshop Elements is also a good choice that you can usually find on sale for under 100.00. Elements has come a long way too and has many of the features of CC.

Another option is to make an 8x10 canvas in PS, make you original smaller by about 1 inch or whatever looks good and insert your image onto the 8x10 canvas. The the cropping will happen on the edge of canvas not your image. I do this with 4x6 prints because I have a Micro 4/3 camera and I can't print an 4x6. I can then cut the pictures to fit my cards. When Wallgreens has a huge sale on 4x6 prints that I use for cards I have to do this, when I only pay about .05 for each print it is worth the time and effort to do this. If I send the image sized to 4x5, the pictures come back looking terrible.
I can always print 8x12 or 16x24 with no problem and no cropping. You can also make your canvas any color to match the photo.

Just a thought