The photo world is abuzz with the announcement by Adobe that the next version of Photoshop will have Camera Shake Reduction.  They aren't the first to the table with this though.  Intelligent Imaging Solutions beat them to the punch just last week with a public beta release of Piccure, a plug-in for Photoshop.  I was eager to get my hands on this and see if this was too good to be true.  In short, I wish I could say it differently, but I am not a fan.  That is not to say I am not impressed though - I am.  It is fascinating what they are able to do, but my experimentation didn't lead to usable images.  Here are a few examples:

This first image was shot with a 200mm lens without Image Stabilization at 1/50.  You can see the obvious blur in the original cropped image to the left.  The image to the right is the outcome after using the Piccure plugin.  I was hopeful with this image, as perhaps you could salvage a shot with this in certain circumstances.

Mailbox_1-50

This next image was shot with the same lens, but at 1/30.  The blurriness is far more evident, and the resulting image from using Piccure is not only useless, but perhaps even worse than the original.  

Mailbox_2-30

The final image was once again shot with the same lens, once again at 1/50, but this time more blurry than the first, and entirely unusable after attempting to clean it up with Piccure.

Mailbox_3-50

We do have to remember, this is a beta release, but honestly, it doesn't give me much hope.  I hope the folks at Adobe or Intelligent Imaging Solutions can improve this technology to create something that might be useful, and perhaps if I had a photo with less blur it might have been, but the icing on the cake was the fact that each time I used Piccure, Photoshop would inevitably crash.  Not good.  Yes, I know it is a beta, but still not good.