Review by NoVA Music Lover

PhotoDirector 6 has a surprising number of features for those that want to catalog and do simple edits for their digital photos.

Although I normally use Photoshop CS 6, I wanted to find something that would be more intuitive and easier to use for the people in my family who aren’t photoshop geeks. PhotoDirector 6 fits that need very well.

Importing photos is a simple process and rather than a bunch of obscure icons on a palette, PhotoDirector arranges their functions by general task and as a result, workflow is much easier. There are tools for retouching blemishes, taking care of redeye, enhancing skin and eyes and there’s even a tool that lets you reshape a persons body (to get rid of holiday pounds, I suspect).

Two things that impressed me were the High Dynamic Range (HDR) and panorama functions. Both tools made it very easy to create HDR and panorama photos and did a good job identifying photos that were not appropriate for the shot. I deliberately tried to fool it, but the program correctly identified each ‘wrong’ photo and didn’t try to include it in the final shot.

This is a good tool for those who want good looking results without having to spend hours digging around in manuals and offers a lot of good features for the price point.