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You can, of course, also add face tags in manually and remove incorrectly tagged people. Is your sister bugging you to get all the photos from the yearly summer picnic that her daughter is in? Now you can teach PhotoDirector 4 what your niece’s face looks like and easily group and process the images for export.

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While perhaps not as useful for all professional or even artistic work, this sort of thing can be a godsend for family/friends snapshots and events. While it’s absolutely not perfect, once you have tagged faces and it has started to learn them, you can get some surprisingly accurate automatic tagging out of it. In addition, there is a fairly robust facial tagging system. There are the standard rating, color-coding, and flagging tools. Once imported into the PhotoDirector library, you can make use of the various organizational tools. While importing, you can rename, add tags, and apply processing presets. You can choose to keep the image in its current location make a new copy for the program to work from. You can import into PhotoDirector 4 directly from a digital camera or single images or complete folders from your hard drive. All modes are accessed by clicking on headings at the top of the pane. There is also a “Slideshow” mode that has it’s own area, but should for all intents and purposes be included in the “Print/Sharing” group. There are four major modes of operation for PhotoDirector: Library (import, tagging & organization), Adjustments (levels, white balance, sharpness, etc), Edit (effects, “filters”, etc), and Print (printing, sharing, Facebook/Flickr export). The image area can be set to view a single image, a single image with a “filmstrip” of other images below, or a standard “lightbox” view of thumbnails. PhotoDirector 4 uses a fairly intuitive layout where images inhabit 3/4 of the pane on the right hand side and selection/editing/adjustment/etc tools live in a left hand sidebar in the remaining space.

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In addition, PhotoDirector 4 also marks the program’s first appearance for the Mac OS, a welcome addition to the list of photo software for Apple users. With an improved suite of editing tools, PhotoDirector moves squarely into the “Photoshop Elements” realm for many users.

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2012 Cyberlink brings us PhotoDirector 4, an impressively featured and more polished update to the original. But it was lacking some of the features of its older more established competition. The organization/editing program was well received, particularly at its budget price point. In 2010 Cyberlink jumped into the fray with PhotoDirector. But then came programs like Aperture, Lightroom, Photoshop Elements, ACDSee, Paint Shop Pro, and so on offering a range of features at every price point. It wasn’t all that long ago that Photoshop was one of the only games in town for editing and organization was limited to subfolder after subfolder with names like “Julie’s 5th birthday” and “July 2002 trip to OR”. One of the nice things about the evolution of digital photography in the past 5-10 years has been the increase in availability of programs to both edit and organize your images.

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