Silk purse from pigs ear. You need lense correction software precisely because the lenses on most compacts are pap especially when used in macro where you will get max distortion.
The free-be graphix programs are quite reasonable for doing the basics like colour correction, saturation, brightness, contrast etc and eventually folks tire of using effects filters it is always always about composition and quality.
Robert, there is a tutorial in Feedback and help about how to load pics indirectly.