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- ProsFriendly yet powerful interface. Effective noise reduction. Cool multiple-exposure and faux HDR effects. Body shaper and other powerful editing tools. Layer support. Cool AI styles. Tethered shooting support.
- ConsNot enough lens-profile corrections. Inadequate chromatic aberration correction. No geotag maps.
- Bottom LinePhoto workflow and editing program CyberLink PhotoDirector offers a smooth interface and powerful capabilities. New in this version are multiple-exposure effects, more layer options, and a video-to-photo tool.
Sep 17, 2014 CyberLink Date Added: Sep 17, 2014 Download CyberLink PhotoDirector 6 Ultra for Windows Download Download CyberLink PhotoDirector 6 Ultra for Mac Download Alt-download CyberLink PhotoDirector 6 Ultra for Windows Alt-download Alt-download CyberLink PhotoDirector 6 Ultra for Mac Alt-download. Twitter Facebook LinkedIn. CyberLink PhotoDirector is kind of a sleeper in the Mac pantheon of desktop image editors. It competes with Apple Photos, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Pixelmator, Luminar, and other consumer imagers.
CyberLink PhotoDirector started life as a workflow alternative to Adobe Lightroom. While Adobe's photo editing software has gotten simpler, PhotoDirector has gone in the other direction, accruing many new tools, some of which enter Photoshop territory, such as adjustment layers, masks, and text kerning. The latest version, 10, even adds the kind of painterly AI filters made popular by the Prisma app. Despite what some might see as feature creep, the program remains capable, usable, and worthy of consideration.
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While PhotoDirector does indeed give Adobe a run for its money in photo workflow and editing software, however, it lacks some powerful features found in Lightroom and Photoshop, such as raw Profiles and geotag maps. Still, it goes beyond Lightroom with drawing tools, face-beautification tools, and blur effects. Advanced features include face tagging, content-aware object removal, and there's even a body-slimming tool—a feature of undeniable power, whatever you may think of its .
Pricing and Setup
PhotoDirector is available for both Windows (7SP1 and later) and macOS (10.11 and later). It's only available in one level, Ultra, at a list price of $99.99, though you'll usually see it discounted online. You can get PhotoDirector together with our Editors' Choice consumer video editor, PowerDirector, for $139. Another option is Director Suite 365, a $29.99-per-month ($129.99 per year) subscription plan that includes all of CyberLink's media software along with plug-ins and content packs and 100GB of cloud storage. For comparison, you get Photoshop Elements for the same $99, but for Lightroom you pay $9.99 per month forever. ACDSee Pro also costs $99 one-shot, and Corel AfterShot Pro costs a one-time price of $64.99. The more pro-targeted DxO PhotoLab and Capture One Pro cost $199 and $299, respectively.
A fully functioning 30-day free trial of PhotoDirector is available for the price of your email address. It's a 285MB download for Windows and 425MB for Mac. Once installed, the program requires more than 800MB on disk, so keep some space available. Unfortunately, the trial is not upgradable to the licensed version, so you have to reinstall if you decide to buy.
PhotoDirector supports high-DPI monitors, such as the one on which I tested, a 4K touch-screen Asus Zen AiO Pro Z240IC all-in-one PC. And there's a complementary Windows tablet version of PhotoDirector that lets you edit photos on the go.
PhotoDirector is a 64-bit application, meaning you can take advantage of more than 4GB of RAM—something you'll want when you have a lot of high-res photos open and are doing heavy image manipulation.
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Interface
The latest PhotoDirector version doesn't include any drastic changes to the program's interface, which was clear and attractive already. PhotoDirector bypasses Photoshop Elements' separate Organizer app, too: You can do everything inside the main PhotoDirector application.
As is common among pro- and near-pro-level photo workflow apps, PhotoDirector uses modes. That means there are global tabs or buttons that switch the interface among different functions, usually organizing, editing, and sharing. PhotoDirector has six modes: Library, Adjustment, Edit, Layers, Slideshow, and Print. Like Lightroom, PhotoDirector lets you choose which of these buttons appears, though the option for this is down with the toolbar customizations or by right-clicking on the title bar, rather than in Preferences.
Switching modes is as simple as it is in Lightroom Classic. Within each of PhotoDirector's modes, a left-side panel offers mode-appropriate options. In the Library and Adjustment modes, the panel is further broken down into two tabs, Project and Metadata for the first, and Manual and Presets for the second.
The main viewing area is flexible, with a few options of its own. In Library mode, a large view of the photo sits above a filmstrip-style look at other pictures in the folder. Alternatively, buttons at the top let you see just the photo, a gallery browser of thumbnails or filenames, or a full-screen view of just the current photo. In addition to viewing one large image, you can also compare two or several in Library mode.
The Gallery view can be filtered by photos you've flagged or color labeled, or those you've edited. I'm happy to see that you can now filter the view by camera model and lens, as you can in Lightroom Classic (but not Lightroom CC, which only lets you filter by camera model). Hover the mouse over a thumbnail in gallery view, and you see star rating and flagging buttons for easy rating and selecting. When you're viewing one large image, the same choices appear along the bottom with color labeling added; optionally, you can add controls for rotation and back and forward arrows.
In Adjustment mode, you can see a split view showing an image before and after your edits. Flipping through images was snappy and delay-free in testing, as was overall program response—even on a less-than-stellar 2.5GHz dual-core laptop. Like Lightroom, PhotoDirector lets you zoom only to preset sizes—25 percent, 33 percent, and 50 percent, and so on—rather than offering a full-range slider like the one on ACDSee Pro. But a single click switches between zoomed and unzoomed, which is convenient.
You can't detach the program's panels to float anywhere on screen, as you can in ACDSee Pro. Undo is well implemented, and an excellent adjustment history panel shows not only all previous tweaks but also a thumbnail at the top displaying a mini view of those tweaks' effects. Clicking on any history entry applies that point to the full image view. In all, PhotoDirector gets high marks for its interface.
Importing Photos
The photo import dialog groups zoomable thumbnails of images on the card by date. As with Lightroom (and better than with Photo Mechanic), you can select photos for import from these thumbnails. You can apply Auto-tone, Auto-Denoise, and even effect presets, such as B&W Cool, Faux HDR, or Fantasy Pink during import. You can also apply keyword tags, renaming, and a copyright notice.
The program can import raw camera files, of course, in formats such as Canon's CR2 and Nikon's NEF. Raw conversion detail and color are excellent, though Lightroom brought out more colors (especially with its new Adobe Color and Vivid Profiles) in testing, and Capture One Pro more detail.
PhotoDirector came in first place in my import speed comparison test. I imported 157 24MP raw files in .CR2 format from a Canon EOS 6D. Each file weighed in at about 25-30MB. I tested on an Asus Zen AiO Pro Z240IC running 64-bit Windows 10 Home and sporting a 4K display, 16GB RAM, a quad-core Intel Core i7-6700T CPU, and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M discrete graphics card.
PhotoDirector led the tested pack with a time of 1:03 (minutes:seconds). AfterShot was a close second with an import time of 1:04 (though that program deosn't actually move the files onto disk, but just adds them to its catalog). These results compared with a much slower 2:35 for Lightroom, and 2:41 for Capture One.
Another type of importing, tethered shooting, is finally supported by PhotoDirector. The feature only works with some Canon and Nikon DSLRs for now, but you get a shutter button, along with the ability to change shooting settings like f-stop, shutter speed, and ISO.
The program offers all the expected organizational tools with easily accessible ratings, color coding, and flagging tools in the Library interface. And as I'll show in the next section, it even offers face tagging—a powerful organization tool that's been available in Photoshop Elements for several years. Geotagging and maps, however, are still absent.
Basic Photo Adjustments and Edits
PhotoDirector offers all the basic adjustments you'd expect, including exposure, contrast, white balance, and sharpness. And the ubiquitous fixers—red eye and blemish removers—are added to the local adjustment brushes. Cropping and rotating follow the brilliant approach of Lightroom and Photoshop, showing you the final result rather than an outline of your intended crop.
PhotoDirector also has pro image-editing tools, such as curves and levels. The latter lets you manipulate highs, lows, and midtones with controls on a three-color histogram, with optional quarter-tone controls, too. The tone curves tool gives only three control points.
When it comes to pumping up or cutting down on overly dark or bright areas, PhotoDirector adds a couple of levels in between the standard brights, midtones, and darks. You get five sliders—Brightest, Bright, Midtone, Dark, and Darkest. This setup lets you use the histogram's 'Show over/underexposed areas' tool and then correct these areas with a more appropriate slider. PhotoDirector's 'Auto tone' magic wand button, like similar tools in every photo app, worked beautifully for some photos, but not so well for others.
Another image-correction tool that worked well in testing was Dehaze. I found that this did a better job than Lightroom, which tends to add a color cast, usually blue. PhotoDirector's Dehaze was nearly as good as DxO PhotoLab's, best-in-class ClearView tool.
On the right, the Auto Keystone tool has straightened out the building's vertical lines.
The program's geometry adjustment tools let you fix the barrel and pincushion distortion of telephoto and wide lenses. The Keystone correction tool's vertical and horizontal controls let me straighten distorted lines at the sides of photos of buildings. A new Auto Keystone option did a good job straightening out buildings shot from below, and cropped the unusable sides of the photo.
AI Style Transfer
If you've seen the Prisma mobile app, you know how fun it can be to turn prosaic cameraphone shots into artsy, painted-looking images. PhotoDirector's AI Style Transfer, available in Edit mode, does the same thing for your DSLR photos. You only get 10 styles included with the program, unless you subscribe to Director Suite 365. Otherwise, AI Style Packs cost $149 each, but they are very cool, especially the Chinese Painting pack. The effects took about 20 seconds to apply on my photos.
You can adjust the strength of these effects, and erase it for select areas of the image with a brush. Another option is Apply original color. This creates a color palette for the painting effect using your image, rather than using the palette included with the effect. I found that using the template color scheme produced a more drastic, artsy result. I would like more controls, and remixing capabilities. For example, the canvas creases in the example above weren't adjustable, and applying the effect a second time produced the exact same effect, meaning it doesn't recalculate the effect. A Reapply tool would be nice here.
Multiple Exposure Effect
This is one of PhotoDirector's coolest features. Take a group of up to 10 action shots while keeping the camera still, and PhotoDirector can automagically produce a multiple exposure like the one below. Doing the same thing in Photoshop would involve selecting the person in all six images and creating masks and layers. PhotoDirector even lets you apply a fade-in or fade-out effect to the sequence. It also lets you reduce the number of exposures from a drop-down, rather than making you recreate the merge.
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Layers
Showing its ambitions to be more than just a photo workflow application competing with Lightroom, PhotoDirector includes layer editing. I was initually leery about this kind of tool cluttering a program that's designed for efficient workflow—there's a reason Lightroom doesn't require photographers to mess with layer editing. But PhotoDirector's tool doesn't clutter things up, unless you consider a Layers mode button atop the interface to be clutter. When you enter the mode, a Photoshop-lite appearance takes hold, except the layer controls are on the left and the tools (Text, drawing brushes, gradient, fill, shape, blur) are on the right.
As mentioned above, the text controls are fine-detailed, letting you adjust not just font and size, but also kerning, shadow, and border effects.
A dialog tells you it's best to complete all overall photo adjustments (lighting, white balance, and the like) prior to working with layers. If you don't want to spring for Photoshop CC, here are your layers. Work with layers is saved in PhotoDirector Layer File format (.PHI), not in the more standard PSD.
New in the latest version are the ability to create empty layer projects, edit with layer masks, to group layers, to add adjustment layers, and to create clipping masks. These techniques will be familiar to Photoshop users, who now have fewer reasons to stop paying that subscription.
There are 27 blending modes (the same), which offers a lot of creative options, though it's still short of Photoshop's 27. I like how you can solo and edit a layer by double-clicking on its thumbnail image, but Photoshop's right-click options are a bit more helpful.
Only four Express Templates are included by default, but you can download a choice of 16 more from CyberLink's online repository, DirectorZone, and users of that service can contribute their own creations. The templates usually include filter effects and text overlays. You can customize them with drawing and selection tools, including a Magic Wand selector.
Video-to-Photo
This set of tools actually offers more than its name suggests: You can use it to create a panorama from a video clip, a group photo from a video with everyone making an acceptable expression, or a multiple-exposure image like those you can make from stills. You start from the Video-to-Photo button right above the Import button. Of course, the feature does let you make still photos from video, but in my testing, it couldn't sharpen a moving subject. And the same problem made multiple-exposure shots from video a lot less appealing than those created from stills.
Likewise, the Panorama feature worked in testing, but was less automatic than I'd like. It works best if you manually select frames from a video you play through, and in my first attempt I hadn't overlapped the frames enough to get a full panorama. There's an Auto option, but that also took a few tries to get a full pano result. The tool lets you auto-fill areas of the photo that result from combining perspectives—a nice content-aware feature.
Speaking of content-aware features, CyberLink has added content-aware cloning to the program's content-aware remove and move tools. The remove tool works well, as you can see from the photo above, where I've removed some unsightly tape on the court floor. I had less success with the new content-aware clone feature, which produced unwanted transparency in the object I was cloning. But note the fun trick of resizing the cloned objects.
Color Splash
This is an effect that's been around for a while, at least since Spielberg's Schindler's List. It's where you only let one color in a photo appear, and leave the rest in black and white. PhotoDirector's tool not only lets you select a specific color to show, but you can have it appear only on a selected object, rather than every instance of that color, with a brush that selectively removes the color. A Tolerance slider is also helpful in isolating a color. Below is an example where only the blues appear.
People Beautifier
This tool has three subsets: face tools, skin tools, and body tools. The first includes Face Shaper, Shine Remover, Eye Bag Remover, Wrinkle Remover, Tooth Brush, and even Eye Blinger, which brightens the whites of the eyes. Note that anything you do here can be undone, since a working copy is created. On my test image, the Face Shaper basically tucked in jowls.
These tools let you draw on top of your images and superimpose text, as well as add shapes, fills, and gradients. You can select areas with a lasso and a smart lasso, but PhotoDirector's selection tools are not as smart as Adobe's. This program offers a lot of the layer-blending modes found in Photoshop, including Darken, Multiply, Difference, and Exclusion—14 in all. You can drag layer entries to change their order. You can even go in and adjust any layer separately with the standard lighting, color, and detail tools.
Blur Tools and Noise Reduction
The Blur Tools section in Editing mode makes it easy to add not only blur but also bokeh, zoom focus, and tilt-shift effects. It's as fun, powerful, and interesting as the motion-blur tool in Photoshop Elements.
The Noise Reduction tool does a good job of cleaning up a noisy shot, and makes doing so a snap. Often this kind of feature make you tinker with sliders to deal with chrominance and luminance noise, and PhotoDirector does offer these sliders, but its magic wand de-noising button did a fine job of reducing noise from my test images' dark areas. At full zoom, my results did look a tad blurred, but when viewing the whole photo, the smoothing was a big improvement.
Bracket HDR
I've long been impressed with PhotoDirector's single-shot HDR (high dynamic range) effect, but this true HDR tool is no less remarkable. It's accessible in Edit mode, and you can drag up to five photos shot at different exposures of the same subject from the tray to the main editing area. A merge button combines all the images, which took about 15 seconds on my five-shot test.
The merge lined up the images well, and a checkbox let me remove 'ghosting'—in the case of my shot, traffic that differed from shot to shot. The end result is pleasing, and you can tinker with it even further by adjusting Glow, Edge, Detail, and Tone, or by choosing a preset look. These include Colorful, Detail, Light, Natural, and Surrealistic. It's fun to see the dazzling artistic effects all these choices enable.
Lens Profile Correction
This kind of tool has been a feather in the cap of programs including Adobe Lightroom and DxO PhotoLab for a while. The idea is to fix issues introduced by the lens the photo was shot with, such as warped perspectives and darkness around the edges (known as vignetting). The technique, as with most photo adjustments, works best with raw camera files.
The problem with lens-based correction is that a program has to have a lot of lenses in its database to be useful for most photographers: CyberLink claims more than 150 lenses for PhotoDirector, Adobe has about 600, and DxO claims more than 17,000 camera-body-plus-lens combinations. You can manually adjust the distortion, and CyberLink users can create their own profiles and make them downloadable from DirectorZone.com. PhotoDirector still didn't have my Sigma 150-600mm zoom lens in its database, even though that lens has been out for more than a year. The webpage states that 'this lens profile will soon be available on DirectorZone.'
A profile for the Canon EF-M 15-45mm is now available. Tapping a globe icon in the Lens Correction option group takes you to CyberLink's profile download page, where you can see all profiled lenses. DxO makes the process more efficient by asking you to download the appropriate profiles whenever you load a photo.
For supported lenses, the program automatically chooses the correct model, and those I tested did improve barrel distortion and vignetting. I am disappointed to see that chromatic aberration (CA) wasn't improved when applying profiles. PhotoDirector offers sliders for CA correction that did let me remove some color fringing, and the program's Defringe tool, though manual, does a great job of removing color strokes from object edges. For excellent automatic results, try DxO PhotoLab. Lightroom and DxO PhotoLab are still way ahead of PhotoDirector when it comes to lens profile corrections, for both geometric distortion and CA (chromatic aberration).
Face Tagging
To get started with face tagging, select some photos in Library mode, and hit the Tag Faces button above the thumbnail grid. This starts an Analyzing dialog, which goes through each photo one at a time. Processing 129 photos took just under 3 minutes. As with all face-recognition software, there were a few false positives—bushes were identified as faces, for example. But I am impressed that it picked up profiles as well as full faces.
The interface for assigning names to faces is, as with much of PhotoDirecter, clear and simple. Once you assign one name, it becomes a button for one-click assignment to other photos with faces. After this, you can just click Faces on the Library's left panel Project tab, and then click on a name to display photos only of that individual. You can also choose 'Find more Faces of this person in the selected photos,' but the program doesn't do as good a job of suggesting names that belong to a face as competitors do.
Sharing and Output
PhotoDirector offers clear buttons for sharing directly to Flickr, Email, and CyberLink's cloud galleries from a dropdown. You can generate slideshows for instant viewing, saving to an MPEG-4 video file, or direct uploading to YouTube. Lightroom goes beyond this, though, with some actual video editing capabilities.
PhotoDirector's dedicated Print mode offers every imaginable paper size, custom grid settings, and watermarking, but it has no presets for standard sizes. The company has added a soft proofing feature, which will please pros who print their pictures. There's also a Watermarks feature—something Corel only added to AfterShot Pro in its most recent update.
One final note about help: PhotoDirector includes a comprehensive, organized, searchable help system, along with video tutorials, both accessible from clear buttons in the interface. Unfortunately, the help is now on the web rather than a local file. Adobe's software also takes you to the web for help, but you usually have to hunt through info on other programs than the one you're using and even through user comments before you possibly find what you're looking for. CyberLink wins on this count, and you can download its User Guide, in case you're editing on the road with no connectivity. Wildlife photographers can relate to that situation.
CyberLink also offers a mobile version of PhotoDirector for both iOS and Android. It's pretty powerful, with a lot of fun effects and editing tools. The app is ad-supported, or you can pay $4.99 to remove the ads and allow higher output resolution.
A Good Direction for Photos
You can have a lot of fun at a reasonable price with CyberLink PhotoDirector. Its interface is well thought out, and it has all the standard photo-editing tools, along with a bunch of cool extra goodies. But faster import, geotagging, and much more effective lens-profile-based corrections combine to keep Adobe Lightroom our top pick for pro photo workflow. And for pixel-level photo editing you really can't beat our prosumer Editors' Choice, Adobe Photoshop Elements. Pro-level photographers will still want Photoshop CC.
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Bottom Line: Photo workflow and editing program CyberLink PhotoDirector offers a smooth interface and powerful capabilities. New in this version are multiple-exposure effects, more layer options, and a video-to-photo tool.
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CyberLink PhotoDirector 10 Ultra
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CyberLink PhotoDirector is kind of a sleeper in the Mac pantheon of desktop image editors. It competes with Apple Photos, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Pixelmator, Luminar, and other consumer imagers. CyberLink is mostly associated with Windows, and PhotoDirector is the only cross platform item in the company’s suite of multimedia prosumer apps.
Like many of CyberLink’s Windows apps, PhotoDirector 10 has its own brand of sizzle that may prove appealing to Mac users, especially those interested in turning their photos into works of art.
The latest version of PhotoDirector offers multiple new layer features, keystone correction, content aware clone, the ability to separate imported GIFs into individual frames for multi-exposure or multi-sequence images, and artificial intelligence-based tricks, as well as tethered shooting, soft proofing, template packs, and a new calendar view. That’s in addition to fun and advanced features from previous versions, such as 360-degree photo handling, cinemagraph creation, multi-exposure images, face and body beautifiers, video-to-photo face swapping, and more.
PhotoDirector 10 Ultra also includes 25GB of space on the CyberLink Cloud so you can store, access, and work on your images from anywhere you wish.
The art of presets
One-click photo presets lend easy-to-use creative variations to your photos, letting you automatically choose among HDR, Black & White, and Split Tone looks, as well as styles designed specifically for portraits and landscapes.
PhotoDirector 10 comes with a number of built-in presets, though tons of additional presets are available for individual download from the company’s DirectorZone website and you can create your own presets. While you can’t adjust the presets from the preset pane, you can switch to the Manual pane, which contains the needed controls.
AI Styles
Everyone remembers Prisma. It was part of a wave of server-based AI apps that mesmerized viewers by transforming photos into specific and recognizable artistic styles. That concept lives to see another day in PhotoDirector 10.
Like Prisma, CyberLink’s AI Style Plugin uses deep learning to produce brush strokes and color tones of artistic styles that alter photos on the pixel level as opposed to applying external filters. CyberLink’s AI Style Packs for PhotoDirector are mostly paid add-ons that require separate download and licenses, but there are a number of free samples built into the program.
Tethered shooting and soft proofing
Tethered shooting is a handy studio technique that lets you attach your camera to the computer as you shoot, allowing you to tweak shutter speed, aperture, white balance, ISO as well as trip the shutter. I was able to link my camera to the app and could see the controls change dynamically on the camera readout in real time as I altered them on-screen, but I could not get the visual preview to appear on the screen before the shot.
That was disappointing, but the reason is that the feature was developed using the camera companies’ SDK, which does not enable a live screen preview within the app. Moreover, this feature works only with certain Nikon and Canon cameras. If you are looking forward to using this feature, make sure your camera is supported via the list CyberLink has published.
Soft proofing lets you view simulated printer output on your monitor and includes a gamut warning signaling color range issues before you start wasting ink. While I was able to access the program’s built-in color profiles, my own printer failed to show up as a profile I could select, even though it showed up in the regular printer dialog.
Content awareness
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Adobe popularized content awareness with its Photoshop and Photoshop Elements algorithms, while Pixelmator and others also offer this easy way to remove unwanted objects from a scene without destroying the integrity of your image.
With PhotoDirector, you can now duplicate, or move objects or people within photos. I found this feature hit or miss, with busier background fills less accurate than simpler ones. I also found the performance in these operations somewhat slow on my mid-2013 MacBook Air running the latest macOS.
New layer features
Layer editing with Express Layer Templates offers the flexibility to create unique compositions by combining images, text and graphics with blending modes and masks. PhotoDirector 10 provides built-in layer-based layouts for consumer-oriented web pages, framed photos, greeting cards, and memes, while special effects like grunge, light leaks, scratch and lens flare give family photographers tools to make unique compositions for special occasions.
PhotoDirector 10 also introduces clipping masks, layer grouping, and the ability to add new empty layers to projects, all of which are fairly standard features for most popular image editors catering to enthusiasts. These features worked as expected.
Bottom line
Several features distinguish CyberLink PhotoDirector 10 Ultra from its competitors, offering a fun, intriguing take on various advanced and novel photographic techniques. While this version catches up to other popular image editors in its approach to layers and clipping masks, the ability to apply AI styles, and do tethered shooting and soft proofing present an alternate angle on consumer photography.
That said, certain features did not work as expected or were not as useful as I had hoped, and performance in some computational operations could take awhile. A trial version is available, allowing you to make sure you’re getting everything you want from the app before forking over your cash.
CyberLink PhotoDirector 10 Ultra
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- Tethered shooting and soft proofing offer alternate shooting and printing techniques that streamline some tasks
- Allows creation of AI stylized photos
- Huge online inventory of free styles and additional paid style packages
- Generous amount of free server storage space
Cons
- Some operations are time consuming
- No tethered shooting with iPhones
- Tethered shooting works only with a limited number of Canon and Nikon cameras
- Soft proofing feature does not work with all printers
- Content aware fill is not as robust as competitors for complex jobs