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PicTreat effortlessly touches up the faces in your photos
PicTreat removes red eye and blemishes and adjusts brightness/contrast and color levels. A basic user of Photoshop could do the same thing, but Pictreat does it very quickly, and then gives you the option to upload the photo to several social sites. You can use PicTreat without registering, but you can also get an account, or sign in using Facebook Connect or MySpace.

So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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Sax25 said 10:53PM on 8-07-2009
The problem with this service is that in the bottom lower corner - they have 6 pics of examples and ask you to hover over them to see the before and after. Well 3 of the pics have red eye - but if you look at the red in the eye, it is obviously and manually placed there given the fact that the red eye in every pic looks identical. If this service is so good at claiming to fix images, then why don't they use naturally taken photos from digicams that have genuine red eye? It would help to sell the service more.
If in the before picture they have added fake red eye spots and in the after picture it has been removed - well duh, of course its gone, given that it was added (photoshop layer) so its not hard to remove it for the "after" picture. So in actual fact - it doesn't show the software doing its job which just makes it a complete fail.
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Bolivar Baez said 7:04AM on 8-08-2009
Actually, it does remove the red eyes. Take a PrtScr of said picture and use the service and see how it looks exactly as the "After" picture. No layering or photoshop was used.
Rdaical Dreamer said 12:35AM on 8-08-2009
Sax25 is right.
Fake red eyes.
FAIL.
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blogward said 5:25AM on 8-08-2009
Did either of you guys actually try the tool before venting your anger at an inept website? You get the option to treat either redeye or mobile phone before you upload. If you uncheck both options it does a fair job of normalising colour and exposure for Facebook, etc. Not a bad resource for digital photo noobs uploading facebook photos, and you don't have to subscribe. Meh, rather than fail.
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Stuart Halliday said 8:31AM on 8-09-2009
If I had taken photos that bad, I'd go out to the wood at night and shoot myself ;-)
Learn to use the camera people.
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Leda Eizenberg said 11:06AM on 8-25-2009
Looks great! I'll try it! I'm all for photo retouching, though I hate to admit it.
Except I do admit it here: http://wp.me/pnXbk-5r
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