When we were given a Nikon Coolpix (2200), quite a few years ago, (seems ridiculous for so few pixels, but it was a present and our first digital camera, and is still used), there was some software on a CD for editing etc.
The original present was for a different camera, but it certainly didn't work, and the first - and only - few shots we took had great coloured bars all over each picture! After we changed the camera in Jessops, (they moaned like h***, but it was clearly faulty, no wonder they went pop), I just put the pics into the new Nikon software, and hey presto, all the bars had gone, and there was Mrs Growster in all her finery, on my birthday bash when I was sixty or thereabouts!
I'd just love to master Photoshop, but it really is a bridge too far, as its such a powerful application, and it does much more that I really need to have! I now scan using an iPad, and Picscanner Gold, which is fabulous for editing before downloading all those old pics in the albums, then copying across onto the PC for safekeeping!