Iphoto vs. Adobe Elements vs Adobe Lightroom

Hello to everybody. I am an amateur photographer who started to take pictures more seriously. Anyone knows a good and friendly program to edit photos. I tried some of the above and except for iPhoto, are somehow complex to my needs. Kind regards

I used to use Adobe CS3. It was great.

Now, I have streamlined everything down to using 2 programs.
1. Aperture (very similar to LR but much less expensive and a steal on the App Store)
2. Pixelmator, very close to Gimp and, to a lesser degree, Photoshop.

If you shoot correctly at the camera, you dont need a whole lot of post processing. I have Pixelmator set up in Aperture as the external editor and they are seamless.

Mnay tks for your kind response, im using aperture and for me it looks fine, but di not triesd pixelmator, it is eassy to use? Gym is just for photos to be published i the web, right?