#Photodirector 8 skin#

You keep track of your photos by applying tags and keywords to them, and there’s also a face-tagging function so you can search images with a specific person in them. The Library tab houses the image editor’s organizing system, and you can import photos individually, by folder, or directly from your camera and then organize them into categories.

CyberLink PhotoDirector 12 review: Organization and export options There’s perhaps a lack of subtlety to some of it, but skilled editors will work around this, and there are plenty of tutorials to help you balance out your edits. Overall, we love how easy PhotoDirector’s editing and enhancement tools are - they make the process simple for users of all skill levels, and help you create stunning images fast. In terms of organizing your edits, we love the fact you can put ‘Before and After’ images next to each other, and that you can toggle between thumbnails and list views, but we prefer the grid views in Lightroom. PhotoDirector has batch processing, so you can apply the same edit to multiple photos at once, which saves you loads of time and work if you’re sifting through multiple shots taken on the same settings. While pure or hobbyist photographers won’t necessarily want to blend original and stock photos, it’s great for fun stuff like inserting yourself into different scenes, or popping your friends into different backgrounds.Īs is standard across premium photo editors, if you have images with distortions caused by your camera’s lens, or you experience any chromatic aberration, you can use the lens distortion correction tool to fix this. This means that if you’re looking to blend your images with different backgrounds or scenes, it’s easy to do so. One excellent new feature that comes with 365 is the ability to access a stock image library from Shutterstock, for free. This is where Adobe Lightroom (opens in new tab) still has an edge. Our main (admittedly minor) issue is that it’s easy to over-work an image too, and while there are some excellent guides in the app, the sliders can make drastic changes that are harder to balance out. Compare this to something like Affinity Photo (opens in new tab), and it's night and day. When you’re purely enhancing images, PhotoDirector 12 really is one of the easiest programs on the market, and beginners will get a serious wow-factor in minutes, rather than hours. There are loads of masks and effects for adding additional texture and style to your images, and while many will be of limited use to most, you’ll find the light rays and lens flare features effective and simple to apply.

#Photodirector 8 skin#

It also includes a skin smoother, a teeth whitener, a red-eye remover and a body shaper you can use to edit the subjects in your photos. The program offers tools for color management, background removal, and shapes. You can apply several standard edits to your photos, and if you’re just enhancing them, you’ll likely be working in the Adjustment and Guided tabs. Outside of these headline features, adjustments have been made to other areas of the editing experience. These effects feed more into any surreal or exaggerated images you may want to create, which is something CyberLink is keen to showcase with PhotoDirector 12. They’re great for things like making waves roll into a beach scene, but we struggled to make the animations look natural in many other circumstances. While it’s fun, we didn’t enjoy the animation effects as much. One example we created was making blossom float gently away from a cherry blossom tree, and while there isn’t a specific petal shape, we found that the oval or heart shapes worked well unless we increased the particle size dramatically. Dispersion is, for us, the standout - you can essentially add animated particle effects to your photos, to bring them to life. One definitely works more effectively than the other, although this very much depends on the starting image you’re working with. The headline improvements for PhotoDirector 12's toolset are dispersion effects and image motion, along with powerful AI-driven cropping and background-swapping enhancements. CyberLink PhotoDirector 12 review: Features