So I’ve finally started touching up the photos that I take. This is mostly due to having found Picasa, Google’s free photo management application. It’s incredibly responsive and fun to use (rotate an image and it doesn’t just rotate, it spins!), and it even has an I’m Feeling Lucky button which attempts to fix your photo in one hit.
There’s a downside though. I’m not even going to consider leaving Flickr, and I just can’t see how to get Picasa and Flickr to bring out the best in each other. Flickr does a great job of archiving your photos and Picasa makes it easy to post-process them, but to get a photo from Flickr into Picasa for editing and then back onto Flickr is a complete ‘mare, which is a shame because on their own each tool is really slick.
There was a time when we could have hoped that Google would buy Flickr and turn Picasa into a front-end for it, but since Yahoo! got in there I’d say those days are over. So we’ll have to resort to good old 3rd-party hacks. The trouble is I can’t find any, yet… 
Update: I’m not the only one who thinks this would be a good idea.