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The 10 Most Overrated Products

Hype springs eternal. Lots of technologies, products, and services don't merit the praise heaped on them. Here are 10 tech items that don't live up to their billing--and 10 that deserve respect that they don't receive.

Darren Gladstone, PC World

Overrated: Adobe Photoshop CS4 ; Underrated: Paint.Net 8 of 10

Photoshop has been the gold-standard im­­age editor for ages. It is continually upgraded with new features, and it remains one of the few image editors that supports four-color (CMYK) mode--essential for print work. But people who work online in three colors (RGB) don't need CMYK mode. All image editors--including Photoshop Elements, which costs a small fraction of what Photoshop CS3 costs--can handle RGB.

But why pay at all? Paint.Net, a favorite at PC World, is free. This small, unassuming program performs many basic image editing tasks, works quickly, and mimics the tools and functions that are found in other image editors (so it should be easy to learn).

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