I had the Tamron 28-200, albeit AF version, and it was my walk around lens for a number of years and continued into my early digital (IST*Ds) days
until I realised that I needed a wider angle then a 42mm lens I never made any large prints (for myself) or, at least, I never thought I did until I went
to my nieces home one time a few years back and saw a number ( 7 or 8) large (11x14/16x20) prints of some of the Rock and Rollers I saw over the
years . I asked where she got them from and she said from a bunch of prints she had found at her mom's (my sister) place. Well, you could have
blown me down with feather

As for manipulation stuff, I had Photoshop 6 for a few years, then for the past ten (or so) years, I have just been using Preview on my MacAir's
and Aperture for straightening and captioning . Now, I use Affinity for captioning and, nothing, as is painfully evident, for straightening Also,
I shot jpg's, exclusively ....

Cheers,

Jack