![]() The result is an all-in-one, value-priced alternative for your full image editing needs. The Library module is not as full-featured as the one in Lightroom, but it offers typical features like tagging and search, plus the increasingly common option to enable facial recognition. ![]() To use PhotoDirector effectively, though, you really need to get into the spirit of how its modules are designed to work together. That can be frustrating, at least at first. For example, to crop and resize an image I had to use the Crop tool from the Global Adjustments (which are non-destructive a la Lightroom), then resize when I exported it (this is a task I need to do all the time when preparing images for various websites like ExtremeTech). ![]() In Photoshop this is accomplished with a simple pixel-based preset for the Crop tool. Speaking of Photoshop, one of the biggest updates in PhotoDirector 10 is to help it match the Layers capability found in Photoshop CC. CyberLink has added Adjustment Layers, Clipping Masks, and Layer Groups. Tethered shooting has also been added, which should be a big win for many who work in a studio - a key market for CyberLink. On the snazzier side are some AI-powered Style features, starting with a Style plug-in. To accompany that there are various Style Packs. ![]() PhotoDirector also adds a Dehaze command, in line with other popular editing packages. On the more-innovative side, it can also extract a series of frames from a video and turn them into a multi-exposure still frame. I find that especially interesting since one issue with video is that it isn’t as easy to view or share as a still image, so a way to capture motion in a single image is intriguing.
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