Playing around with Photoshop a bit, particularly with Totally Rad Actions, and so far I’m really liking the results.  I’m able to do the same thing I’ve been doing manually in Photoshop in a FRACTION of the time spent manually adjusting things.  I need to make sure I don’t go overboard with actions, as I still like being able to manually do this stuff in Photoshop, but still, for quick and dirty editing, TRA can’t be beat at this point.