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Picasa: While I agree that Picasa is a must have tool for any Photographer ( in my opinion ), I'd like to point out that Picasa's photo editing leaves a lot to be desired. I appreciate Picasa's user interface and light memory footprint. Best of all the photo organizer is hands down the best I've seen. I even enjoy the easy to use touch-up tools. Unfortunately, depending on the effect you select, the resulting picture comes out blurry, over-saturated, leveled badly or all of the above. As for the "Auto Correction" button, it's damn near useless. Image manipulation is a complex science/art. Adobe's image processing algorithms are superior because they have to be. Catering to the pro market for many years has put a tremendous amount of research into said algorithms. That and hiring a lot of very smart Computer Science folk. There are shortcuts (i.e. less complex methods) for image manipulation. Many of which are widely used/known. Not that Google is wrong for using them. It should be noted that the Picasa tool is consumer, which allows for moderately lower tolerances. In this case we are referring to the quality of the output image. While the tool has it's strong point's, it's not an end all solution to photo editing. For me, using Picasa for touch-ups will mean my pictures will lose some of their fidelity and that's not something I'm willing to overlook.

Short answer: I gonna fool with PhotoBot and see if the hype is justified. In the meantime I'll continue to use both Photoshop for touch-ups and Picasa for organizing my work.
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I don't think the purpose of this is to help weed out the keepers which is what you seem to be suggesting here.

OK, MAYBE this might be useful for wedding photographers, but not very good ones. The good ones will want to tailor each image or apply filters and/or adjustments that aren't going to be available with this program.

It's also useless for anyone that shoots RAW. Photoshop already has the auto adjustments for exposure, contrast, etc. And redeye? What's that?

(I'm not a pro but I play one on TV)
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