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PicTreat effortlessly touches up the faces in your photos

by Jay Hathaway on August 7, 2009 at 08:30 PM

With the rise of social networking profiles and photo sharing sites, people are putting more photos of themselves online than ever. Retouching, Photoshopping and the infamous "MySpace angle" have all done wonders to make people look better in photos, and now we can add PicTreat to that list. It's a fast, easy way to give yourself a perfect complexion ... on the web, anyway.

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.

Tags: facebook, myspace, photo, retouching, social-networking, utilities

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Sax25Aug 7th 2009 10:53PM

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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 BaezAug 8th 2009 7:04AM

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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.

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Rdaical DreamerAug 8th 2009 12:35AM

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Sax25 is right.
Fake red eyes.

FAIL.

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blogwardAug 8th 2009 5:25AM

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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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