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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 youвЂ™re sifting through multiple shots taken on the same settings. While pure or hobbyist photographers wonвЂ™t necessarily want to blend original and stock photos, itвЂ™s great for fun stuff like inserting yourself into different scenes, or popping your friends into different backgrounds.ДЄs is standard across premium photo editors, if you have images with distortions caused by your cameraвЂ™s lens, or you experience any chromatic aberration, you can use the lens distortion correction tool to fix this. This means that if youвЂ™re looking to blend your images with different backgrounds or scenes, itвЂ™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 itвЂ™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 youвЂ™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, youвЂ™ll find the light rays and lens flare features effective and simple to apply.

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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 youвЂ™re just enhancing them, youвЂ™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. TheyвЂ™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 itвЂ™s fun, we didnвЂ™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 isnвЂ™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 youвЂ™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.

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